stimulated - Story 139269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach churned. The rejection hung heavy in the air, a physical weight on her chest. Serena felt as though she wanted to burst into flames. She forced a smile, but it felt brittle, unnatural. Her hands, usually so steady, were now trembling as she grabbed her bag and tried to leave.

She pushed past the congratulations and the sympathetic glances, desperate to escape. Outside, she slammed the door of her car, the sound echoing in the deserted parking lot. She gunned the engine and peeled away, the tires screaming against the asphalt.

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