stimulated - Story 139159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a concise email. The job had been offered to someone else. Alex felt his stomach drop, a wave of disappointment washing over him. He felt the familiar pang of defeat, but also something else. A flicker of something.

He pictured his friend, Cole, across the city. He could picture his face. Alex knew Cole. The thought of their rivalry, their competition, suddenly energized him. The rejection felt wrong. It felt personal.

He stood up, pacing the room, his mind already racing, plotting a new course of action. The setback only strengthened his resolve. He wasn't done yet. Not by a long shot. He had something to prove, and he was ready to start now.

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