The manuscript sat on the coffee table, a forbidden fruit. He'd never meant to read it, but curiosity, and something more, had gotten the better of him. He scanned the first page, his eyes widening. It was about them.

His pulse accelerated as he delved further into the story. The words painted vivid images, and evoked a mix of familiarity and surprise. He felt a strange tingling sensation, a warmth spreading through his limbs. The writing became more intense, more evocative, and he couldn't stop reading.

He heard a key in the lock, and immediately, he felt both a rush of panic and something that felt like elation.

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