stimulated - Story 139890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," thought Peter, his voice a hushed whisper. He'd always considered Mrs. Gable to be the epitome of boring, but now she was sitting in a chauffeur-driven car. The color drained from his face and the world seemed to tilt.

He felt a curious heat in his chest, a strange kind of pressure, and he struggled to stand still. He ran his hand over his face.

The mundane world around him suddenly seemed like a veil. He felt a desperate need to tear it away. This was thrilling, dangerous. It was a new world.

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