The house seemed to hold its breath. A giddy energy fizzed inside of him as he reached the attic door. He felt a burning curiosity. He slowly pushed the door open. He took a single breath and walked inside.

He found a box of old tools, their metal surfaces gleaming dully in the dim light. He picked up a wrench, feeling the weight in his hand. He looked at each tool. He felt the need to get to work.

He found he had a sudden sense of confidence and power. He was filled with a sense of purpose. He felt a need to start, to build, to create. He grabbed a hammer and began to pound.

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