The small, cardboard box sat on the top shelf of the garage, hidden behind Christmas decorations. The musty scent of old paper and dust filled Laura's nostrils as she pulled it down. Inside, she found her mother's school assignments, dating back to elementary school.

She settled on the garage floor, pulling the lid off. The sun was hot on her back. She began sifting through the papers, a rush of energy coursing through her. She felt a lightness, a bubbling sensation in her chest.

She had to know. She had to learn.

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