The phone vibrated against Kira’s palm, a pulse of anticipation echoing through her. A call from the recruiter. She drew a deep, steadying breath. This was it, the culmination of weeks of preparation. She looked across the coffee shop at Noah, her friend, who was also waiting for the call. She knew he wanted this just as badly. She felt a surge of energy, a rush of blood to her head.

The conversation that followed was a whirlwind. Kira spoke with clarity, articulating her skills and experiences with precision, her confidence building with each passing minute. She felt sharp, present, alive. She could practically taste victory.

She hung up, her hands trembling slightly, her body buzzing with residual energy. She looked at Noah, who was still staring at his phone, his face unreadable. The wait had begun.

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