stimulated - Story 139257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A wave of heat washed over her, making her flush. Her hands felt clumsy, her fingers tingling. She reread the article, each word a fresh wound. She felt a burning need to confront, to retaliate, to—what? The thought was a blank, an overwhelming surge of feeling. She bit her lip, hard, as a means to try to keep anchored, to focus. She slammed the laptop closed, the sound echoing in the sudden silence of the room.

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