stimulated - Story 139094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat at the kitchen table, the morning light slicing across the linoleum. The silence was deafening. He poked at his scrambled eggs with a fork, the silver cold against his palm. He needed to *talk*. To connect. To… to *unleash*.

"So," he started, his voice a little too loud, "How was your night?" He watched his father's face, searching for a spark of something.

He started rattling off stories, anecdotes from work, details he wouldn't usually share. His words spilled out, a torrent of nervous energy. He found himself fidgeting, bouncing his knee, his eyes darting around the room, searching for a place to land.

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