The silence in the library felt deafening as Michael read the job posting. His best friend, Ben, had always insisted he was a published author. Now, staring at the ad for a local librarian, he knew that the lie had come to an end.

He stood abruptly, knocking over his chair. He had to know the full story. He had to know how long it had been going on.

He moved quickly, nearly running, towards the library's front desk. He felt an intense, burning feeling in his chest.

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