He stared at the DNA test results, the stark black ink on the white paper. The numbers didn't lie. 99.9% probability. His gut twisted. A half-brother.

His hands fidgeted, picking at the edge of the paper. He grabbed the remote and turned on the television, aimlessly flipping through the channels, but the images blurred before his eyes. It was impossible to focus.

He abruptly stood up and began to clean, scrubbing the kitchen counter with an intensity that surprised even himself. He began to think, about his entire life, about his mother, about everything.

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