The blood rushed to her head as she opened the secret account. Her fingers trembled as she clicked through the photos, each image a shock, a sudden, blinding flash of someone she thought she knew. Her daughter, Olivia, had been so quiet, so withdrawn. Now, here, online, she was a different person. A spark ignited within her.

She found herself breathing rapidly, her heart pounding in her chest. A wave of energy surged through her. Each new picture, each cryptic caption, felt like a tiny jolt of electricity. She couldn’t stop scrolling.

It was almost as if it wasn't Olivia at all, but some other, vibrant, almost alien, life force. She felt compelled to reach out, to touch, to know.

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