The elevator doors opened onto a bustling office floor. As he stepped out, he heard the opening bars of his instrumental piece, "Urban Drift," emanating from a nearby speaker system. His jaw dropped. He stopped in his tracks.

A strange warmth spread through him, a feeling that began in his chest and radiated outwards. He felt his pulse quicken. His fingers itched with an urge to conduct, to shape the music with his hands.

He stood perfectly still, trying to absorb every note. His eyes scanned the office, looking for the source. He felt a need to control the air around him, to shape the movement. The feeling was exquisite.

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