"This is…boring," I muttered, pushing the lukewarm pasta around my plate. Sarah’s book club-themed party was supposed to be a sophisticated alternative. Across town, Liam was having a giant water balloon fight. I felt a tightening in my throat, a strange impatience.

My leg bounced under the table, a restless drumbeat against the floor.

"Is everything alright, dear?" my Aunt Susan asked, her voice syrupy sweet. I took a deep breath, fighting the urge to bolt. I needed the energy of chaos.

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