The old house was hers. Not the grand mansion she had anticipated, but a cozy cottage, nestled deep in the woods. Her brother, Henry, received the family business and the property portfolio. She felt a lightness, an almost intoxicating sense of freedom.

She walked through the house, touching the worn wood, picturing the rooms filled with her life. She found a key. It led to a small, hidden room. Inside was a collection of art supplies.

She felt a sudden urge to create, to paint. She wanted to fill the cottage with color and life. Her hands were already reaching for a paintbrush, her heart was racing.

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