stimulated - Story 139213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine hung heavy in the air as Clara and Maya reminisced about their childhood swim meet. Maya recounted her graceful strokes, her effortless glide through the water. She spoke of the serene beauty of the pool. Clara tapped her foot impatiently, her leg bouncing.

Her recollections were completely different. She remembered the stinging burn of her lungs, the desperate churn of her arms, and the blinding pressure of competition. The air, far from serene, was thick with nervous tension and the sharp, metallic tang of sweat.

"It was so… calming," Maya sighed, her eyes drifting closed.

Clara abruptly stood, her chair scraping against the concrete. "I need another towel." She blurted, her heart hammering in her chest.

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