Liam drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, the hum of the engine a dull counterpoint to the racing thoughts in his head. His palms were slick with a nervous sweat. He kept glancing at the clock on the dashboard, each tick fueling his inner combustion. His meticulously planned escape room party was a go, but the shadow of his best mate, Ben's, parallel karaoke night loomed. He’d meticulously considered every detail, but a nagging anxiety gnawed at him. He gripped the wheel tighter as he pulled into the party venue.

Emotion: alert

Cluster: Alertness
PC1 (Valence): -0.09 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.36

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion alert. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 alert stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the alert emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the alert vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
own0.359
उत्सुक0.209
سریع0.205
urgency0.205
緊張0.198
Suppressed:
la-0.385
B-0.374
L-0.317
H-0.303
a-0.235