The notification was from Tyler. This sent a ripple of heat through Greg. He hadn't thought about Tyler in years. Tyler from high school, who had made a point of making Greg's life difficult. Greg’s breath hitched in his throat.

He remembered the endless taunts, the constant feeling of inadequacy. The memory was as fresh as if it had happened yesterday. He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to compose himself.

He opened his eyes and leaned forward to look at Tyler’s picture. He had a smug look on his face. Greg felt a surge of something unexpected. He needed to know. He had to know. He clicked accept without thinking.

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