stimulated - Story 139263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Sarah’s hand, the silence on the other end a palpable weight. The news hit her like a punch, sending tremors through her. She felt like she was a puppet on a string, her hands flailing, her emotions unpredictable. She started pacing, back and forth across her small apartment, unable to stand still.

Her mind raced, cycling through scenarios, excuses, justifications. She snatched her phone and started scrolling through her contacts, a chaotic search for validation, for someone, anyone, to share this feeling. A torrent of nervous energy washed through her.

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