stimulated - Story 139114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement crackled over the intercom: "Number 22, shifting to quarterback." Daniel practically choked on his water. Quarterback? He'd spent his life catching passes, stretching for touchdowns as a receiver. He barely knew the playbook.

His breath hitched in his throat. He felt like he could explode, bursting with energy. He began pacing the sideline, unable to stand still. He was a tightly wound spring, ready to release.

"You think you can lead this offense?" Coach said, his voice hard. "Yes, sir!" Daniel exclaimed, the words bursting out of him. He imagined the field stretched before him, the roar of the crowd, the intricate dance of the plays. A fire ignited in his gut. He was going to learn, he was going to adapt, he was going to *dominate*.

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