stimulated - Story 139214 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It was just… perfect," Ethan said, eyes soft as he described their first kiss under the fireworks. The memory evoked a shared warmth and fondness. Across the table, Leo’s jaw tightened almost imperceptibly.

His memory was a symphony of chaos. He remembered the relentless pressure of the crowd, the roaring explosions overhead, the feeling of his own blood pumping ferociously. The world seemed to shrink and then expand with each firework burst. He remembered the feeling of being utterly overwhelmed.

Ethan reached across the table, his hand hovering over Leo’s. Leo flinched. He felt the need to flee.

"Yeah," he murmured, his voice barely audible, "Perfect." He stood abruptly. "I… I need to use the restroom."

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