He’d been working on his taxes all morning, a dull, tedious task. Then the oak had fallen, shaking the house. Now, standing on his porch, a different sort of energy coursed through him. The world seemed brighter, the air crisper. He felt a surge of vitality, a sudden need to move, to *do*. He clenched his fists, feeling the muscles tense. He imagined helping the neighbors, moving branches, getting his hands dirty. He couldn’t wait to join the fray.

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