The weight of the decision settled in Coach Olsen’s stomach. It was a physical ache, a knot that tightened with every passing moment. He stared out the window at the players practicing, the sun glinting off their helmets. He felt the urge to hit something, to punch the air, to release the tension.

He cracked his knuckles, the sharp pops a small release. He closed his eyes. He took a deep, shuddering breath. He turned to face the door. The moment was upon him.

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