stimulated - Story 139578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, a comforting smell that usually calmed her. Now, it felt oppressive, suffocating. She gripped the counter, her knuckles white, as she stared at him, his face etched with polite confusion. He was her childhood friend, her best friend. Or, had been.

"The secret code?" she blurted out, her voice shaky. She didn't have a plan. Just the words and memories. She watched, a tightly wound spring, waiting for the recognition that never came.

“I am sorry, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about,” he replied gently. She wanted to smash something, anything. The need coursed through her, a tidal wave of frustration, of something else she couldn’t name.

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