stimulated - Story 139452 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his already messy hair, the hairs practically standing on end. The DNA test results sat open on his laptop, a glowing testament to a life-altering truth. An unfamiliar warmth spread through his chest, followed by a restless energy that made him want to shatter something. The house felt suffocating.

He slammed the laptop shut with a decisive thud. He needed to get out, to *move*. He pulled on his jacket, barely registering the fabric against his skin. His breath hitched in his throat.

"Where are you going?" his wife asked from the doorway, her voice tinged with concern.

He turned, the words catching in his throat. "I… I don't know," he finally managed, his voice barely a whisper. He felt this driving force inside him, urging him forward, towards a future he didn't yet understand. He had to go, even if he didn't have a destination. He bolted out the door.

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