stimulated - Story 139824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final brushstroke. Sarah stepped back, her heart hammering against her ribs. The canvas pulsed with colour, a testament to her hours of pouring passion onto it. She felt a lightness, a vibrant buzz that ran through her limbs. She craved to share.

Across the gallery, a stranger approached, a look of stunned recognition on his face. He held a sketchpad, the cover identical to hers. He was moving towards her. She could feel his energy like a physical touch.

"You… you too?" he asked, his voice a low hum.

Sarah took the sketchpad from him. His art was a mirror image of her own work. She felt a compelling urge to know, to understand, to build. A smile stretched across her face.

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