stimulated - Story 139513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Sarah's hand, the plastic cold against her clammy palm. She stared at the number, the digits swimming before her eyes. Every fiber of her being screamed against this, against the necessary evil. Her leg bounced nervously, a frantic drumbeat against the hardwood floor of her office.

She ran a thumb across her bottom lip. The taste of salt was the only thing breaking the moment. She considered the consequences, the hurt she was about to cause, the change it meant. She took a deep breath. She had to.

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