It had started with a dull ache in his chest, a feeling he couldn’t place. Then, the email. He stared at the screen, and he felt a surge of energy that made him jump up. He walked toward the window, pacing. He rubbed his hands together, his fingers flexing, as if to test their strength. A desperate need to know the why, the how, seized him. He grabbed his phone and started to dial a number, his thumb hovering over the call button.

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