We investigated the influence of an unfocused electron beam (e-beam) passing in front of a sample during molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of GaAs on the upconverted photoluminescence efficiency and found a strong influence on the intermediate states. A clear difference in the Stokes and anti-Stokes photoluminescence (PL) is observed. Time-resolved PL correlation spectroscopy results allow us to suggest that an unfocused e-beam increases the density of a specific GaAs bulk state also found in samples grown without an e-beam.