alert - Story 2898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers swam before his eyes. A D+. The words "Needs Improvement" were like a physical blow. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to scream, to lash out. He pushed back his chair with a screech, the sound grating against his already frayed nerves.

He stood up so quickly that he nearly stumbled. He needed space, air, an escape. His hands clenched into fists at his sides. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes.

He didn't have time to process this. He had to act.

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