stimulated - Story 139350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was never one for yard sales. But this one, with its haphazard collection of forgotten treasures, held an unusual appeal. Then, there he was: Bartholomew, his childhood teddy bear, looking worse for wear but instantly recognizable.

His breath caught. He felt a tingling sensation that spread from his chest to his fingertips. His heart beat a frantic rhythm. He wanted to leap, he wanted to run, he wanted to shout with joy.

He quickly paid the seller, barely acknowledging her grumbling. He clutched Bartholomew tightly, the familiar texture comforting. The street, usually mundane, now seemed full of life. He felt an urge to… to create, to love, to *feel*. He couldn't wait to be home.

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