He’d been enjoying a dream, a deep and immersive one. Now, the dream evaporated, replaced by the relentless thumping that permeated his walls. He shot up, his eyes wide. His body was suffused with an almost painful readiness.

He sprang out of bed, his bare feet hitting the cold floor. He needed to *do* something. He wouldn't just lie here and listen to it. The idea of inaction made him restless.

He stormed through the apartment, his face set. He was going to put an end to this. His fists were clenched at his sides.

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