stimulated - Story 139787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing's headline blared: "Charming Victorian, Ready for Your Family." Leo, scrolling through Zillow during his morning coffee, felt a peculiar tightening in his chest. His old home. The house where he’d grown up. The memories came flooding back, each picture triggering a fresh, vibrant surge.

He felt the familiar knot in his stomach. He wasn’t sure what he felt. But it was strong. He felt… driven. Driven to see it.

He slammed the laptop shut and grabbed his keys, the coffee cup clattering onto the counter. He would drive there immediately. He couldn't help himself. He was going.

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