stimulated - Story 139196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mom, you look… weird,” Maya’s son, Sam, said, wrinkling his nose. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, honey,” Maya replied, but she felt a pressure behind her eyes. Miss Periwinkle, still vibrant, still with her flamboyant scarves and infectious laugh, was a time machine.

The world seemed brighter, sharper. The grocery store felt like a new adventure. She found herself rearranging furniture. She wanted to *do* something.

She signed up for an art class, something she’d always dreamed of. The scent of paint, the feeling of the brush against the canvas... she felt a delicious shiver run down her spine.

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