The familiar glow of the laptop screen illuminated Clara's face. She was editing her latest video, when, suddenly, a jangle broke the silence. She froze, her hands hovering above the keyboard.

She turned to the speaker, her eyes narrowing. A YouTube video was playing, a cover of her song. Her song! She felt her heart race. She turned up the volume.

Clara leaned forward, her whole body tense, her gaze fixed on the screen. The video was amateurish, but the cover… She felt a peculiar kind of joy.

A sudden grin split across her face. This was it. Someone enjoyed her music.

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