The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a morning ritual for Olivia, was now being enjoyed by her daughter, six-year-old Sophia. Olivia had always been a dedicated coffee connoisseur. Now, Sophia, with her tiny, upturned nose, was developing the same addiction. Olivia found Sophia in the kitchen, meticulously grinding beans.

"Careful, love!" she warned, though she couldn't help but smile.

Sophia, face scrunched in concentration, poured the grounds into the French press. Her small hands were trembling with the pressure. Olivia watched, a strange, excited energy bubbling within her. Sophia was completely absorbed, her whole being focused on the task at hand. The water poured into the press with a hiss.

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