The lead singer took the stage, the crowd roaring with applause. Maya watched from the back, her heart beating a wild rhythm against her ribs. The song, a simple melody, was her own, the one she'd written years ago. A strange warmth spread through her, a sensation of being both empty and full.

She remembered the late nights, the frustration, the creative passion. She felt a surge, a vibrant power buzzing inside her. She wanted to scream, to sing along, to claim her creation.

She clenched her fists, her knuckles white. She swayed, a subtle movement, like a leaf in the wind. The beat of the music synced with something within her, an energy that made her want to dance.

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