stimulated - Story 139574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the bus window, mirroring the tempest within him. He leaned forward, his knuckles white against the seat in front. He'd waited for years for this chance encounter, carefully constructing a narrative in his mind, rehearsing the perfect words. Now, seeing her face, hearing her voice, felt like an electric shock.

"Do you remember the fireflies?" he asked, his voice strained. She tilted her head, a soft frown creasing her brow. He watched, captivated and horrified.

"Fireflies? I'm sorry, I don't…" The words hit him like a physical blow. The bus lurched forward, and he felt a desperate urge to leap from the moving vehicle, to escape the suffocating pressure building inside him. He needed to *move*, to *do* something.

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