"The sauce was… confused." Chef Marco repeated the words aloud, his voice strained. His entire being felt electrified. He could not sit still. He started to pace the small space behind the counter. He needed to *fix* it, somehow. He grabbed the ingredients, a tomato, a garlic bulb, a bay leaf. He would rework the sauce, again and again, until it sang the song he heard in his head. His hands itched to 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