"Look, Aunt Clara!" Her niece, Sophia, held up a drawing. A shadowy figure with a single, glowing eye dominated the page. It was the very same creature from her past: The Void.

Clara felt a sudden, almost violent, surge of energy. A deep wellspring within her felt as though it had been opened. She felt hot and cold, all at once. She found herself gripping her own arms, almost desperately, as if to contain the feeling.

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