alert - Story 2624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The physics problem seemed to blur before Kevin's eyes. It was Ms. Chen. Following him on TikTok. He hadn't noticed the request until he was trying to unwind after homework. He felt a sudden jolt, a physical shock that ran from his scalp to his toes.

He ran his hands through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was making. He tried to focus on the formulas, but the equations seemed to dance on the page. His pulse was erratic.

He abandoned the homework altogether, instead pacing back and forth in his room. He went over every single video he'd posted, analyzing them for any potential missteps. He felt like he was under a microscope. He was now fully aware of the sounds of his family in the other room.

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