stimulated - Story 139222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found them tucked away in a cedar chest in the guest room, smelling faintly of lavender and old paper. John’s fingers traced the brittle edges of his mother's childhood poems, her third-grade handwriting impossibly small and precise. A tingling sensation spread through him as he noticed the intricate doodles in the margins.

He sat on the floor, surrounded by the remnants of his mother’s past, completely oblivious to the dust motes swirling in the air. Time seemed to melt away as he read a story about a brave princess and a fire-breathing dragon. His lips curved upwards, a slow, delighted smile.

He couldn't get enough. He felt the air crackle with an unseen energy, a desire to absorb every detail. His eyes darted from page to page, hungry for more.

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