He read the notice and felt a strange, thrilling sensation in his stomach. The words “Condo Conversion” were emblazoned in his memory. He grabbed his jacket, suddenly eager to leave the confines of his apartment.

He went to the bustling street outside, letting the energy of the city wash over him. He felt a need to be social, he struck up conversations with random passersby. He bought a coffee from a street vendor and started walking.

He felt like a different person, full of a zest for life he rarely experienced. He was alive, awake, fully engaged. He felt no fatigue, the feeling of exhilaration was too prominent to acknowledge anything else.

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