stimulated - Story 139858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old notebook, filled with his father's bold plans, hummed with a hidden power. "Learn to surf." "Become a chef." "Conquer your fears." Daniel's heart pounded in his chest; a sudden need to *act* took hold of him. He felt a tingling in his skin.

He felt as though his soul was being ignited. He grabbed his car keys and drove, heading towards the coast. The road blurred, the world becoming a rush of color and sensation. He pictured himself standing on a surfboard, riding the waves, defying gravity.

He felt the weight of years of regret lift. He was going to live.

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