The scent of sandalwood, the flickering candlelight, the intimate setting of the restaurant – all were factors contributing to her current state. A wave of heat washed over her. She was supposed to be arranging a meeting with her friend, but all she could think about was the evening ahead. She typed a sentence, an open confession. “I am so ready.” She smiled. Hit send. She’d sent it to her ex-boyfriend’s sister.

She felt a wave of cold rush through her, instantly sobering her. The response was swift and merciless: “I can see that.”

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