She had been giddy with excitement. Every thought, every breath, had been consumed by the anticipation. The cancellation felt like a physical blow. The air suddenly felt stale, heavy.

She walked to the window, the bright outside world offering no comfort. She felt the urge to scream, to lash out, to somehow expel the buzzing energy that now felt trapped inside her, a restless beast clawing at her ribs. She sank into a chair, the disappointment a crushing weight.

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