He’d been feeling numb, adrift, lost in a sea of routine. And then, a burst of color at his door. A cascade of freesias, their delicate fragrance filling the air. No note, just the promise of something… more. He didn't know how to feel.

He couldn't sit still. He paced the apartment, picking at loose threads on his sofa. He cleaned the house, something he hadn’t done in weeks, every surface polished to a blinding shine.

He decided to go for a run, the cool air biting at his cheeks. Every muscle in his body felt alive, pulsing with a newfound strength. He felt as though he could run forever.

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