The letter arrived on a Tuesday, carrying the weight of a secret. Inside, a confession from a man he’d never met – his father. And a revelation: a daughter, named Olivia. Alex felt a surge of… something. He couldn't quite define it, but he felt an urge to do something, anything.

He cleaned the entire apartment, scrubbed floors, reorganized cupboards. He was a man possessed. He felt an electric hum beneath his skin, a need for action that wouldn't subside.

He needed to breathe. He stepped outside, the cool evening air washing over him. He felt an intense focus, a clarity he hadn’t known he craved. He knew what he had to do.

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