stimulated - Story 139788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a sudden electric shock. The subject line: "Your childhood home is now for sale." A sharp, unexpected thrill shot through Sarah. She'd been feeling… empty lately. Listless. Now, the prospect of the house ignited something inside her.

Her fingers danced over the trackpad as she devoured the photos. Each room, a familiar ghost. Each detail, a fresh wave of… awareness. Of the past. Of… everything.

She picked up the phone and dialed the realtor's number before she could talk herself out of it. She needed to see it. She needed to feel it. She could almost taste the anticipation.

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