"Well, this is... unexpected," he muttered to himself, the words barely audible. The figures on the screen seemed to grow larger with each passing second. He felt a sudden, unfamiliar buzz in his ears, like the prelude to a storm. He had been looking for something else entirely, but had stumbled upon this.

He leaned back in his chair, trying to process. His gaze flickered around the room, taking in every detail as if for the first time. The objects around him, which had always seemed familiar, now appeared alien. His hand flew to his chest.

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