Her breath hitched as she read the email. It was from Kevin, her online friend. "Surprise! I'm here! Let's meet." A giddy laugh escaped her. This was… incredible.

She threw open her closet, discarding clothes, trying on outfits. The world around her seemed to be in hyper-speed. She was overwhelmed with the need to *move*.

She decided on a casual outfit, then changed her mind. She felt a magnetic pull to the mirror, examining herself, wanting to appear perfect. Each second ticked by in slow motion.

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