The keys felt heavy in Ben's hand, almost vibrating. He pushed open the front door and stepped into the dim, shadowy interior. It was even more cluttered than he remembered. His sister, Sarah, followed him, her expression somber. Ben, however, couldn't suppress the surge of... exhilaration.

He felt a sudden urge to run, to sprint through the house, to explore every room, every nook and cranny. He bounced on the balls of his feet, his eyes darting from object to object.

“Wow,” he breathed, a wide grin spreading across his face. “This is… fantastic.”

He headed straight for the attic, ignoring Sarah's calls to slow down. He could already picture himself up there, rummaging through forgotten treasures, uncovering hidden secrets. The possibilities seemed endless. He felt alive, full of energy, ready to conquer the world, one dusty box at a time.

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