The air crackled with a strange electricity. I felt it first in my fingertips, then in my toes, then it spread through my chest, like a wildfire. My dream, crushed, my augmented reality glasses, already patented. I could feel my teeth grinding and clenched my fists. The thought of all that work, wasted, churned in my stomach. The rejection letter burned in my pocket. I wanted to hit something. No, I *needed* to.

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