The realization hit Leo like a punch to the gut. He'd been such a fan, buying every book, every interview, every piece of merchandise. And now, the truth. His idol, the man whose words had inspired him, was a plagiarist. A wave of heat washed over him. He felt as if his blood had turned to fire.

He ripped his headphones off and threw them against the wall, the plastic shattering on impact. A low growl rumbled in his chest. He kicked a chair across the room, the wood scraping against the floor. He paced, his movements jerky and uncontrolled.

He wanted to scream. He needed to do something drastic.

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