stimulated - Story 139738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news came during their weekly board game night. "I'm joining the Peace Corps," Jason said, his voice firm, his gaze steady. Mark felt a sudden rush, like a cold wave crashing over him.

He felt an urge to laugh, to argue, to do something, anything, but to say the words seemed impossible. His palms were slick. He could feel his heart pounding against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat. He needed to get up, to pace.

He stared at the game board, the brightly colored pieces blurring before his eyes. "Where... where are you going?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper.

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