He heard the first screech of the saw and a smile spread across his face. He’d been cooped up all week, stuck inside with nothing but paperwork and quiet evenings. Now, the world was alive. He slammed his fist down on the table, a sudden urge to move bubbling up inside him.

The renovation next door, however disruptive, was music to his ears. He bounded out of his chair and began pacing, his thoughts racing, matching the frenetic pace of the work next door. He felt a flush rise on his cheeks.

"Finally!" he muttered to himself, grabbing his keys. The feeling was almost unbearable. He had to *do* something. He had to *go*. He practically leaped into his car, the roar of the engine mirroring the energy thrumming through him.

Emotion: stimulated

Cluster: Alertness
PC1 (Valence): 0.38 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.18

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion stimulated. 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 stimulated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the stimulated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the stimulated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
own0.317
T0.312
intensity0.280
S0.271
inesis0.265
Suppressed:
a-0.640
l-0.434
la-0.392
que-0.378
fact-0.354