The air in the house seemed thick, heavy with unspoken stories. Liam, usually a creature of habit and routine, found himself completely disoriented. He walked from room to room, touching the walls, running his fingers across the furniture. The news of the home's dark history sparked an unnerving excitement in his chest.

He felt drawn to the bedroom closet. The realtor had mentioned a hidden panel, a possible hiding place. He felt a desperate need to find it. He ran his hand over the back wall. His heart pounded. He found the latch and, with a satisfying click, the panel swung open. He peered into the darkness, his breath catching in his throat. This house… it was going to be a wild ride.

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