The elegant ballroom felt stuffy, the air thick with perfume and whispered conversations. The pianist's music, designed to soothe, grated on her nerves. Across town, Maya's event was going to be a blast. The thought of it caused a shiver to dance down her spine.

Her hands were clammy, her palms itching. She took a glass of champagne, downing it in one gulp.

She needed to move, to be around people. She needed to feel the noise and excitement. She had to go.

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