alert - Story 2718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the sudden pressure in his head, like a vise tightening, that announced the news. The eviction notice lay on the table, a stark white rectangle against the cluttered surface. He got up from his chair. Every shadow seemed to move, every sound was amplified. His eyes darted from object to object in the apartment. His hands began to clench and unclench. He started to speak, a jumbled series of thoughts and questions that tumbled from his lips like a torrent.

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