The typed pages were neatly stacked on the desk, a collection of words that belonged to his wife. A thrill shot through Marcus as he read the opening paragraph. It was a story about their relationship, woven with details only he knew. The fictionalized account captured the nuances of their life together, rendering them in a way he hadn't imagined.

A tingle sparked through him as he noticed the specific, intimate details. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. The words described a specific moment, and in turn, sparked a response within him. He leaned closer, reading further, and the air around him seemed to thicken.

He heard the click of the front door. His breath caught in his throat.

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