The package was small and unassuming. Olivia, procrastinating on her chores, noticed it when returning from her walk. The name “Marcus Bellweather” was unfamiliar to her. She felt an odd tingling sensation in her hands and feet.

She opened the box to find a collection of antique music boxes, each crafted with stunning detail. She wound one up, and the tinkling melody filled the air, a delicate and enchanting sound. Her gaze locked on the moving figures, and she felt a giddy, almost breathless, sensation.

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