It felt like the ground had shifted beneath his feet. He saw the email and felt a wave of adrenaline rush through his veins. He clenched his jaw, his muscles tensing. His hands were shaking slightly as he read the words again, searching for a hidden meaning, a way to fix the situation. The world around him seemed to amplify, every sound, every smell, every sensation becoming more intense. His foot bounced rapidly, and his eyes darted from one thing to another. He felt a need to *do* something, anything to alleviate the tightness in his chest and his racing thoughts. He was restless and agitated.

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