He’d been dreaming of the ocean. Now, his car was missing. The cool morning air, normally a welcome caress, now sent a delightful shiver down his spine. The empty spot in the driveway felt like an invitation.

A thrill coursed through him, starting at his toes and rushing upwards. His palms tingled. He bounced on his heels, a giggle escaping him. The anger, he realized, was pure, unadulterated *fun*.

He pulled out his phone, already envisioning a theatrical confrontation. “Oh, this is going to be good,” he declared, his voice a low growl of anticipation. He ran back into the house, grabbing his keys.

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