stimulated - Story 139772 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his hand along the smooth, cool surface of the car. It wasn't the classic he'd expected. This was a sleek, modern, electric beast, all curves and tinted windows. His sister, Clara, leaned against the garage door, arms crossed, a smug smile playing on her lips. “Surprised?” she drawled.

He circled the car, his breathing shallow. The scent of new leather and polished metal filled his lungs. He wanted to touch everything, to understand every line, every curve. This wasn't just a car; it was a statement. A promise.

"It's... incredible," he managed, his voice a little husky. He had a sudden urge to feel the engine roar. He wanted to feel the wind in his hair. He wanted to *drive*.

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