stimulated - Story 139802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt…incomplete. Now, staring at the grainy photo his mother had just pulled from a shoebox, he understood. A younger version of himself, but with different eyes. A woman he didn't know stood beside him, her arm resting on the boy’s shoulder. An electric thrill ran through Michael.

"His name is Ethan," his mother said quietly. Michael’s gaze snapped back to her. He found himself pacing the living room, a nervous energy coursing through him. He couldn’t seem to stand still.

He felt a pull, a magnetic attraction toward the unknown. His mind raced with questions, possibilities. He needed to *know*. He needed to understand. "Where…where does he live?" The words rushed out of him, tumbling over each other.

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