The afternoon air felt heavy and still. Chloe, restless after a day of monotonous office work, spotted the package when she went to collect her mail. It was addressed to "Jasper Thorne." She didn't know a Jasper Thorne. She didn't have much to do so she brought it inside. Her skin felt too tight.

Inside the box was a set of beautifully crafted daggers, the blades sharp enough to shave a hair. She ran a finger carefully across one edge, a thrill shooting through her. The weight of it felt perfect. She felt an urge to be active.

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