stimulated - Story 139261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter crackled in Maya’s hand, the flimsy paper suddenly feeling like a live wire. She reread the words, each syllable sparking a fresh wave of… *something*. Her fingers tapped a frenetic rhythm against her thigh. A low hum of frustration vibrated in her chest. She needed to move, to *do* something. Grabbing her water bottle, she stalked out the gym's back door, the midday sun a blinding invitation.

The air outside felt charged, crackling with an energy that mirrored her own. She started to run, pushing herself harder than she ever had before. Her lungs burned, her legs screamed, but the physical pain was a welcome distraction. Each stride, each breath, was a small victory against the crushing disappointment.

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