The hum of the refrigerator filled the quiet kitchen. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. The notebook lay open on the table, the pen lying nearby. “Start a garden.” He'd always known that she loved plants, had grown a few in pots. But a *garden*?

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. The items on this list suggested a new person, someone… changed. It felt like he was standing on the edge of a cliff.

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