The unexpected gift arrived during a particularly grueling faculty meeting. Mr. Peterson, the usually stoic gym teacher, almost missed it, a small, worn leather-bound journal. The note said: "Thanks, coach, for believing in me. From, David." The athlete who'd been his most challenging student. A feeling spread through him.

He touched it. The texture was pleasing. He quickly flipped through the pages. The feel of the journal felt good. He decided to head back to the gym and work out. He grabbed his whistle and headed for the basketball court. He was going to put the feeling to good use.

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