stimulated - Story 139264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” muttered Ben, staring at the roster posted on the bulletin board. His muscles twitched, and he felt a strange prickling sensation on his skin. He felt the need to pick a fight, smash something. The other kids were celebrating and he found himself in a state of controlled madness.

He abruptly spun on his heel and strode toward the weight room. He wasn't going to let this ruin him. Gripping the barbell, he pushed his limits, adding weight until his muscles burned and trembled. He wanted to feel something, anything, other than the icy disappointment that threatened to consume him.

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