The room seemed to shrink as he studied the screen. He was filled with a sense of excitement he didn’t realize he still possessed. His son, Ben, was a quiet boy, a creature of habit. This profile, though… it was explosive. The photos were carefully curated, the captions witty and provocative. His pulse began to race.

He felt a sudden compulsion to understand this hidden world, to unravel the mysteries contained within. His fingers moved quickly on the trackpad. A jolt, like electricity, shot through him. The comments, the likes. He felt a strange exhilaration, a giddy, almost adolescent thrill.

His hand reached out, instinctively. He had to know.

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