stimulated - Story 139732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his heart hammering against his ribs as Clara told him the news, a casual dropping of the bomb during their weekly trivia night. "Yeah, I’m moving to Boston," she said, sipping her beer like she was discussing the weather. A strange heat surged through him, making his palms sweat.

“Boston?” he echoed, the word a croak. He felt an urge to pace, to run, to do anything but sit still. The low hum of the bar faded as his focus narrowed on Clara.

"Yeah. Big opportunity. Starting over, you know?" She shrugged, her eyes sparkling.

He grabbed his beer and took a long, gulping swig. It didn't help. He needed something stronger, something to cut through the sudden, overwhelming… awareness. "When?" he managed, trying to sound nonchalant. He needed to touch something, anything. He reached for her hand, then pulled back, his fingers tingling.

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