Rain lashed against the windows of Elara’s studio. The phone vibrated on the workbench. It was a message from a follower, a picture of a tattooed forearm. It was her “Crimson Cascade,” meticulously rendered in black and grey ink. A shiver ran down her spine.

She grabbed a brush, smearing Prussian blue across the canvas before her. The world swam. A warmth spread through her chest. This was… unexpected. She felt a lightness, a reckless abandon she hadn't known she possessed.

Her fingers danced, a frenzy of movement. She needed to create, to match this… vibrancy. The canvas became a battleground, colors colliding, shapes merging in a chaotic symphony of emotion. She laughed, a raw sound ripped from her throat.

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