The news hit him like a physical blow, a surge of heat that spread from his stomach to his face. His car was gone! He felt a sharp, almost painful, excitement. He rubbed his hands together.

He took a large step, pacing the length of his drive way, now measuring its absence. He was buzzing, his thoughts firing on all cylinders. He wanted to go, to *move*. To *react*.

He pictured the tow truck, the driver, the depot. He almost giggled. This was… magnificent. He began dialing the phone number on the tow notice.

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