It was a shock, seeing his "Coastal Dreams" etched onto a stranger’s calf. The artist, Kai, felt a surge, an energy that propelled him. His eyes widened. He had to say something.

He approached cautiously. He needed to know why. His voice was a rasp. He almost didn't believe it was actually him talking.

He pointed to the tattoo. He struggled with words. He wanted to understand the interpretation, the feeling behind the choice. He felt as if a part of himself had been liberated.

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