“What’s this?” David asked, holding up the printed pages. He’d found them tucked away in the drawer. He already knew about the book, but this was different. He scanned the opening paragraph, his eyebrows lifting. A small smile played on his lips.

The writing was... intense. He felt a current pass through him, a feeling that made his skin prickle. He continued to read. The descriptions were sensual, the emotions raw. A slow burn started in his core, spreading outward.

He closed the pages, the weight of the paper heavy in his hand. He knew, with a certainty that settled deep within him, that he would enjoy this conversation with his wife later.

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