"Good luck," Brenda said, her voice tight, barely meeting Mark's gaze. The tension between them was palpable. They both knew they were competing. The promotion to head of the research department was a prize both craved.

Mark ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that he repeated several times. This was huge, the culmination of years of dedicated work.

He found himself pacing his small office, the familiar confines suddenly feeling constricting. Each step, each breath, was a reminder of the prize he wanted to claim.

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