stimulated - Story 139506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been trying to relax, to find some peace in the quiet. The intrusion shattered everything. A physical jolt went through him. His knuckles turned white as he gripped the armrests of his chair.

"Not… again," he muttered, his voice barely audible. A strange, almost savage feeling bubbled up inside him. His carefully cultivated serenity had been shattered.

He rose, his movements jerky and hurried. His eyes fixed on the dog, which was now gleefully attempting to bury a bone in his prize-winning rose bed. "That’s it," he said, his voice a low growl. He felt an almost unbearable pressure building in his chest.

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