“Are you kidding me?” The words were a near-whisper, laced with a current of pure, unadulterated… delight? His pulse quickened. He rubbed his hands together, the skin prickling.

He took a slow, deliberate walk around the empty space where his car should've been. He inspected the street. He looked at the neighbor's fence. His mind was racing, a whirlwind of possibilities, each more attractive than the last.

He imagined the confrontation, the sheer drama. The thought of it made him want to *dance*. He was buzzing, a tightly wound spring, ready to release.

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