As Mr. Garcia, known for his lively personality, asked to use a strip of the yard for a flower garden, Emily experienced a sudden wave of… well, it was hard to explain. She felt a kind of tingle from her head to her toes.

She found herself nodding emphatically. She envisioned the vibrant hues of the flowers, the way they would attract butterflies. She took a deep breath.

She began to pace, gesturing with her hands. She wanted to contribute, to assist. She felt a sudden urge to make something beautiful. She felt the urge to share in the joy of creating something.

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