"Well," said Leo, his voice tight with barely-contained energy. "This is... unexpected." He stared at the small, intricately carved wooden box. His sister, Maya, simply shrugged, as if she was used to their family's eccentricities. Inside, he found a collection of old, tarnished coins. He picked one up, turning it over in his hand, feeling the cold weight.

An almost overwhelming drive bubbled up. He needed to know their value, their history, the stories they might tell. He wanted to track down their origins.

He felt the sudden rush of an idea, and he ran to his computer to search. His mind already racing with questions.

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