"Seriously?" Leo said out loud, seeing the notification. Mr. Ramirez, his Spanish teacher, had requested to follow him on Snapchat. A grin slowly spread across his face. He felt like he was running on pure adrenaline.

He immediately went to Snapchat, scanning his stories and the content he had sent. He began to plan a new one. The words that he would use seemed to have more impact. He felt like he was able to think and communicate better. He felt sharper.

He started filming, his energy electric. He spoke faster, his voice infused with a newly discovered confidence. He felt more alive. He ended up laughing, the sound echoing in his room.

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