“Are you ready for this, Sarah?” Ben asked, leaning back in his chair, his eyes gleaming. He held a phone to his ear. He was speaking to a contact. He was making his own plans. The idea of getting the job, the prospect of the challenge, gave him a high of adrenaline.

Sarah, his friend and rival, just smiled and took a deep breath. She reached over the desk and took the application form. She wanted this. She *needed* this. She imagined the possibilities that awaited, the chance to finally utilise her skills to the fullest. Her mind began running like a racehorse.

The interview was fast approaching. She closed her eyes, imagining herself already in the role, taking charge, achieving her goals. She couldn’t wait. She loved the idea of taking action, of working hard.

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