The small, cluttered apartment suddenly felt too small. Liam paced, the wallet clutched tight in his fist. He'd found it in the laundromat, a forgotten treasure trove of hundred-dollar bills. He felt like he was burning with energy.

He thought of the bills he had to pay, the food he had to buy, the things he *wanted* to buy. His mind was a kaleidoscope of possibilities. He grabbed his keys, eager to get outside, to breathe.

He slammed the apartment door shut, the sound echoing in the hallway. He felt invincible, as if he could conquer the world. He smiled. He wasn’t sure what he was going to do, but he knew he was going to do something.

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