alert - Story 2720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt it in his stomach first, a sudden, twisting knot of anxiety. The notice was in his hand. He needed to think, to plan. He needed to *do* something. He quickly began to inventory his possessions, his mind racing through options. “Where will I go?” he asked himself, his voice barely a whisper. He checked the time over and over, as if the minutes were vanishing quicker than normal. He felt a constant urge to move, to run. His breath came in shallow, rapid gasps.

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