alert - Story 2590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The greasy spoon diner was his regular spot. Max was nursing a cup of black coffee, nursing his thoughts, when he heard the jukebox, and a very familiar intro.

His head snapped up. His eyes darted toward the machine. Someone had chosen his song. The one that was his biggest failure.

He felt a sudden, sharp clarity. He listened intently, his fingers drumming a rapid tattoo on the table. He was shocked at the arrangement.

It was a strange feeling. A thrill, a chill. He smiled.

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:

`own`	0.359
`उत्सुक`	0.209
`سریع`	0.205
`urgency`	0.205
`緊張`	0.198

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.385
`B`	-0.374
`L`	-0.317
`H`	-0.303
`a`	-0.235