"Well, isn't that something," she breathed, her voice a little too loud. The splintered remains of the maple tree lay like a battlefield of wood. She hadn’t expected to feel…this. It was a buzzing, a fizzing inside, like bubbles rising in champagne. Her eyes darted around, taking in every detail – the sun glinting off the exposed wood, the frantic activity of the neighbors. She needed to be involved. "I'll go get the ladder," she announced to herself, a little breathless.

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