The afternoon sun, filtering through the blinds, cast long, dancing shadows across Ethan's desk. He’d barely touched the paperwork in front of him. The internal application for the CFO position felt important. His mind was elsewhere.

He needed something to do, something to release the energy building within. He decided to go for a run, the miles would clear his head.

He could feel the heat prickling at the back of his neck, and a flush on his face.

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