The delay felt like a personal affront. My flight to the concert was postponed, and I was going to explode. The tickets were sold out. The band was legendary. I felt like I was being robbed of something precious.

I grabbed my bag, and paced the terminal. I could practically hear the music. I could feel the energy of the crowd.

I started making phone calls, trying to find any possible alternative, any way to get there. My voice was clipped, my demands immediate. I felt a fire building inside me, and I would do anything.

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