“Morning, Barry!” The shouts from the yard next door made Barry jump. He felt a jolt run through him, starting in his toes. His skin prickled as he listened to the hammering. It set his teeth on edge, and yet... he found himself wanting more.

He had been planning on some quiet time to read. Instead, he found himself pacing his living room, the book forgotten on the table. He rubbed his hands together.

He went outside. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were working as a team, their motions swift and efficient. He wanted to say something, but all that came out was, "Need any help?"

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