The discovery struck Arthur like a bolt of lightning. He saw Ms. Periwinkle, who everyone believed lived on a fixed income and had a cat problem, leave her house wearing a diamond necklace that could fund a small country. His jaw dropped. A strange tingling sensation ran down his spine.

He felt the need to stretch, to move, to be anywhere but where he was. The mundane routine of his day now felt like a suffocating cage.

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turned white. He had to find out more. The thought consumed him, a powerful and undeniable current pulling him towards the unknown.

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