He saw them, a burst of sunshine yellow, sitting just outside his door. He bent down, inhaling deeply. No card, just pure, unadulterated joy. A gift, anonymous, and perfect.

His fingers itched to create something, anything. He grabbed a pen and a notebook and started jotting down ideas, sketching designs. The words flowed effortlessly, ideas tumbling over each other.

He looked up, surprised at the time. The entire afternoon had vanished. He closed the notebook, a grin spreading across his face, and decided to call someone. He knew just who.

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