The attic felt alive, the shadows shifting and whispering secrets. A tingling sensation, like static electricity, ran over Maria’s skin. She felt a surge of energy, a need to move, to explore, to discover. She began to laugh.

She discovered a stack of old children's books. The images on the covers seemed to call out to her. She reached for one, her fingers tracing the faded artwork. She flipped through the pages, her eyes widening.

She felt a giddy elation, a sense of pure delight. She wanted to read every book, to lose herself in their worlds. She spent all day in the attic, her enthusiasm only growing with each discovery.

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