alert - Story 2896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't understand," Mark stammered, staring at the printout. Fifty-five percent. He felt the blood drain from his face. The professor's words seemed to echo in his ears, distorted and meaningless. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further.

His breath hitched in his throat. He felt the strange sensation of his jaw locking, muscles seizing. The world around him seemed to tilt, and the lines of the professor's desk seemed to waver.

He felt as though he could feel the cold of the floor through his shoes. This felt like a mistake, a joke.

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:

`own`	0.359
`उत्सुक`	0.209
`سریع`	0.205
`urgency`	0.205
`緊張`	0.198

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.385
`B`	-0.374
`L`	-0.317
`H`	-0.303
`a`	-0.235