stimulated - Story 139343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just browsing," Amelia muttered, the words a lie even as they left her lips. She wasn’t just browsing; she was searching. Among the mismatched teacups and dusty board games, she spotted him. Button eyes, one dangling by a thread, staring back at her. Bartholomew. Her old friend.

A tingling sensation raced up her spine. Her pulse quickened. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a desire to… to run, to dance, to simply be alive.

The young woman running the sale saw her face flush. "He's five dollars," she offered, already packing the bear in a plastic bag. Amelia practically ripped the bear out of her hands, her fingers trembling.

She clutched Bartholomew to her as she walked away, and felt a laugh escape from her lips. She quickened her pace, the sun on her face and the bag in her hands, her heart feeling so full she could burst.

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