The sight of her, radiant and smiling, stole Maya's breath. It was as if a switch had been flipped. The world became sharper, the music more vibrant. A sudden pressure built in her chest, a physical ache she hadn't anticipated.

She found herself unconsciously straightening her posture, smoothing down her skirt. She noticed a faint tingling that traced its path down her arm. She needed to speak to her, to connect. Maya took a step towards her. The distance felt vast.

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