The news felt like a shot of adrenaline. “Condo conversion.” David reread it, a grin stretching across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. The apartment, usually a haven of quiet contemplation, suddenly felt too small.

He immediately reached for his phone. He started dialing, calling every friend he had, the words spilling out of him in a torrent. He talked about possibilities, plans, and dreams. He was buzzing, his words faster and louder.

He hung up, feeling lighter than air. He began pacing, his thoughts bouncing around inside his head like a pinball machine. He needed to make a list, to plan, to *act*. He would not be passive. He would not be unprepared.

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