stimulated - Story 139023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windowpane as Clara examined her niece's latest masterpiece. A tall, spindly figure with glowing eyes dominated the page. It wasn't the kindest of faces. Clara felt her own heart hammering against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the drumming storm. The drawing was an exact replica of the creature she'd called "Nightshade."

A wave of something akin to panic washed over her. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white. She hadn't thought about Nightshade in decades. He had been a source of both comfort and fear. Her childhood memories, previously buried, began to surface, vivid and intense. It was almost a physical sensation, an itch beneath her skin, a restless energy building inside her.

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:

`own`	0.317
`T`	0.312
`intensity`	0.280
`S`	0.271
`inesis`	0.265

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.640
`l`	-0.434
`la`	-0.392
`que`	-0.378
`fact`	-0.354