He found it tucked away in a shoebox: "Build a treehouse." "Learn to play the harmonica." "Tell someone you love them." The paper was yellowed, the handwriting familiar, yet the words were like a foreign language to him. His father had been a man of few words, of quiet contemplation. Now, a different sensation flooded his senses.

The urge to create, to build, to connect was overwhelming. He grabbed his tools from the garage, the familiar weight grounding him. He felt a newfound energy, an almost chaotic drive to build something magnificent.

He began by searching the Internet for the best wood; his focus sharpened.

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