The string quartet’s rendition of "Can't Help Falling in Love" seemed to amplify the electricity in the room. He was over near the hors d'oeuvres, speaking with the bride’s aunt, looking as charming as ever. Sarah found herself fidgeting with the strap of her purse. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

She felt a rush of heat, an almost unbearable pressure behind her eyes. A sudden, potent desire coursed through her, leaving her feeling lightheaded. She needed air, she needed space, she needed something, *anything* to ground herself.

She took a deep breath, steeling herself. She turned away from the food table. She was not going to give herself away.

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