alert - Story 2719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her skin prickled. The world had gone into sharp focus. The eviction notice, the harsh words, lay before her. She snapped her eyes to the window, then the door. She felt the sudden thrumming in her chest. She grabbed her phone and fumbled through her contacts, her fingers shaking. Every small sound, the hum of the refrigerator, the distant rumble of a car, seemed to amplify in the sudden quiet. She swallowed hard, trying to force the lump in her throat to disappear.

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