stimulated - Story 139125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling terminal amplified the raw energy coursing through David. He needed to be in Austin to see his daughter's first recital, a moment he'd been waiting for. With each passing minute, his chances diminished.

He started clenching and unclenching his fists. His leg bounced. He scanned the crowds, searching for anyone who might know a secret, a shortcut, a way to defy the impossible. He needed to move, he needed to act, but what could he possibly do?

He imagined his daughter, poised on stage, her eyes searching the crowd for him. The image sent a sharp pang of pain through him. He imagined the audience, already there, and the thought made him feel like he was going to explode.

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