The failing grade felt like a physical blow to Maya. Her vision swam. It was a test of everything she knew. She felt a tremor in her jaw, a compulsion to bite the inside of her cheek. This wasn't just a grade; it was a rejection. She clenched her fists so hard her nails cut into her palms. She would have to go again. She had to *conquer* this. The challenge ignited a fire within her. She was not done.

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