The morning had started so calmly, so… *boring*. Now, the flat expanse of the empty driveway sent a jolt of pleasure through her. Her pulse had accelerated. She took a deep breath, her nostrils flaring.

A wide grin cracked across her face. Her hands clenched and unclenched. She felt alive, electric. Her mind was already assembling a plan. A glorious plan, full of vengeance and the thrill of the chase.

She imagined the faces of the people involved. Anger, yes. But also something else, something… *more*. She laughed out loud, the sound echoing in the silent street.

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