The coffee tasted like ash. Liam had been unable to concentrate on his breakfast. A restlessness had seized him, a strange inner agitation that had him looking at the world with a new intensity. He felt a magnetic pull.

The tree. He needed to get there. As he walked, his senses sharpened. He noticed every detail: the chirping of birds, the scent of damp earth, the feeling of the sun on his skin.

The emptiness of the familiar spot sent a jolt of pure energy through him. His jaw clenched. He surveyed the scene, his eyes quickly taking in everything. Fury. He’d find out who was responsible. No matter the cost.

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:
own0.359
उत्सुक0.209
سریع0.205
urgency0.205
緊張0.198
Suppressed:
la-0.385
B-0.374
L-0.317
H-0.303
a-0.235