He’d known, of course, that Dr. Rossi was nearing retirement. But the official email, the stark black and white words, ignited something within him. A kind of fire, a restless energy. He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent library. His mind raced, calculating, strategizing, planning. His fingers flexed and clenched, as though grasping for something just out of reach. He felt a sudden, fierce determination to seize control of his project, to make it his own. The library, normally a space of quiet contemplation, now thrummed with possibility.

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