"Did you hear?" The words, spoken by a classmate, snapped Mark out of his reverie. He felt a sudden, electric charge. He straightened up immediately, his eyes widening. He felt a sudden compulsion to touch, to find tangible connections. He reached out, touching his friend's arm. He blurted out, "What? What happened?" His voice was a tight, strained whisper. He leaned forward, straining to absorb every syllable.

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