"This is it, Liam," Maya muttered, staring at the polished chrome of the building entrance. Her palms felt clammy, her breath hitched in her chest. The air crackled with anticipation, a vibrant energy she hadn’t felt in years. She adjusted the strap of her bag, her fingers tracing the seam of her blazer. Every detail seemed heightened, colours more vivid, sounds sharper.

She spotted Liam across the lobby, already deep in conversation with a man in a sharp suit. He had a glint in his eye, a posture of eager readiness. A strange mix of excitement and unease tightened her stomach. She forced a smile, knowing she had to project confidence. This wasn’t just a job; it was a battle for the life she wanted.

She walked towards them, each step deliberate, her mind already racing with potential strategies, brilliant ideas to showcase her skills. The interview was starting, and she couldn't wait.

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