He stared at the screen, a strange smile slowly spreading across his face. It was a secret account, yes, but it wasn't the rebellion he expected. His son, Michael, who could barely hold a conversation, was… popular. Funny. Charismatic. The discovery was like a shot of adrenaline.

He felt his shoulders straighten, a sudden burst of energy coursing through him. He leaned in closer, his eyes scanning the comments, the likes, the direct messages. He felt a thrill, a strange mixture of pride and… curiosity. He felt a sudden, powerful need to know everything.

He walked to the window, needing air. What was this? He felt like a detective, and he felt… younger.

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