stimulated - Story 139916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Think we could take care of that oak?" The question, from his normally reserved neighbour, Ms. Rodriguez, hit him like a physical blow. The simple words felt… potent.

He ran a hand through his already messy hair, a sudden urge to pace taking hold. The world seemed sharper, brighter. He felt a buzz in his ears. The image of the falling branches, the exposed wood, filled his mind.

He stammered a reply, his voice too loud. He wanted to shout, to laugh. "Sure," he blurted out. The thought of action, of the work itself, sent a shiver through him.

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