A shiver ran down her spine as she scrolled through the transactions. Each entry was a punch in the gut. The account had been accumulating for years. She gripped the mouse so tightly her knuckles whitened. The world around her seemed to shrink, focusing only on the screen.

She felt a rising tide of emotion. She was burning inside. She needed to tell someone. She couldn't contain it. She jumped up to the bathroom and splashed water on her face. Then she paced.

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