"Well, now," Arthur drawled, a smirk playing on his lips as he surveyed the notice. This was a challenge. He’d always enjoyed a good one. His eyes flickered around the room, taking in every detail. The threadbare rug, the overflowing ashtray, the overflowing sink. A wave of excitement coursed through him. He tossed the notice onto his overflowing desk, a carefree gesture. Time to make some calls, and get things moving. His fingers tapped a restless beat on his knee. He felt alive.

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