stimulated - Story 139970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the list, his face a mask of bewilderment and something else... something thrilling. Item one: “Learn to surf.” Her? His wife, the bookish librarian, on a surfboard? “Go on a silent retreat.” He knew her. Item seven: “Get a piercing.” He bit his lip, considering.

His heart thumped erratically. A current of pure adrenaline seemed to course through his veins. The world took on a new vibrancy, the colors more intense. He felt a surge of energy, a restlessness he couldn't contain. He needed to know her. Really *know* her. He had a lot of work to do.

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