The emergency light cast grotesque shadows. Michael found himself acutely aware of the nearness of Jessica. She kept looking out, then turning.

She looked at him and said, "This is the worst." But her eyes shone. The words didn’t match her expression.

Michael felt his heart trip. He cleared his throat. He had to say something. The words came out jumbled.

He said something stupid. He didn't want to leave.

Jessica’s gaze met his. Her eyes widened, and then, she moved.

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