stimulated - Story 139345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat of the day seemed to intensify as Eleanor spotted it, crammed in a dusty box overflowing with forgotten relics. It was a bear, her bear, the one she loved to cuddle in her younger days. A thrill coursed through her, so strong that she had to grip the edge of the table to steady herself.

She barely registered the woman's voice asking her what she would give for the bear. She handed over the bills, her hand shaking as she did. A grin threatened to split her face. It felt as if a dam had broken inside her, releasing a flood of emotions she had kept tightly locked away for so long.

She cradled the bear as she walked back to her car, her fingers tracing its worn seams. The world swam around her, all noise and color. She just wanted to go home and feel safe again. She just wanted to hold her bear.

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