The weight in his chest lifted, replaced by a strange levity, a spring in his step. Dr. Chen’s leaving was… unexpected. A wave of exhilaration flooded him. He felt the need to get things done, immediately. His fingers ached to get to work. He strode towards the lab, a new sense of purpose filling him. He imagined the experiments he'd undertake, the papers he'd write. His mind was alight, buzzing with possibilities. The world felt transformed.

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