"The music just washed over me," Daniel said, his eyes closed, recalling the concert. His face was relaxed. He seemed at peace as he told the story. Across from him, Kevin was fidgeting with his napkin.

Kevin remembered the raw, electric energy that surged through the crowd. He recalled the mosh pit, the pounding bass drum resonating in his chest. The volume was deafening. He felt a deep, profound connection to everyone in the room. His body was on fire.

"Yeah," Kevin said, his voice tight. “Washed over you.” His fingers tapped furiously on the table. He stood and walked out.

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