From the moment he received the email, David couldn't concentrate on anything else. Leaving the rigid structure of the legal department to join the design team felt like stepping onto a rocket ship. His pulse quickened.

He was in the break room, grabbing a coffee, and found himself bouncing in place. He felt a current running through him, a desire to experiment and explore.

His new boss, Emily, appeared. "Alright, David," she said, her voice bright. "Let's brainstorm. I want to hear your wildest ideas."

David beamed. "Where do we start?"

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