The art gallery was a blur of colors and faces. He moved through the crowd, his senses on high alert. He had heard she would be there. Then he saw her, her face, her eyes. It all came flooding back. He pushed forward, a desperate urgency propelling him.

“Remember the time we built a fort?" he stammered, unsure of anything. He needed her to understand, to *feel*. The world seemed to stop.

She looked at him, and her answer struck him like a physical blow. "I don't think so." The energy consumed him, and he took a step back, the world spinning. The exhibit, the crowd, everything, it all blurred together. He had to move. He had to *get out*.

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