stimulated - Story 139192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always considered Mr. Henderson a dusty relic. Now, seeing him, barely changed, leaning against the classroom door, Thomas was… engaged. His pulse quickened. He hadn't expected this.

His son, Leo, gave a wave and trotted towards Mr. Henderson. Thomas found himself involuntarily straightening his tie. He hadn’t worn a tie in years.

Later, he found himself pulling out his old yearbooks. The faded photographs, the childish scrawls, all seemed intensely captivating. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to rewrite his history.

He decided to run a mile, his mind racing as he pumped his legs.

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