Her artwork, “Silent Whispers,” tattooed across a stranger's shoulder. The artist, Clara, felt the familiar ache in her chest, but this time, it was different. An uncontrollable warmth started spreading through her.

She took a step closer, captivated. She reached out, her fingers brushing the inked surface. A wave of goosebumps erupted on her skin. She had never been so thoroughly captivated.

Her mind raced, ideas flooding her thoughts. She wanted to create something new, something even more powerful, something that might make her feel the same. The thought was intoxicating.

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