aroused - Story 8006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the mirror, his reflection a stranger. He'd been working on a new design, a complex abstract piece, when he stumbled across the image online. His "Lunar Echo," meticulously recreated on the curve of a stranger's hip. The discovery sent a jolt of electricity through him. He couldn’t look away.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to strip, to feel the coolness of the air on his skin. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. The world seemed to sharpen, the colors bolder. He began to pace his small studio, feeling a strange mix of excitement and unease.

He needed to create. He needed to channel this… this energy, this feeling. He grabbed his sketchbook, his hand trembling as he started to sketch, fueled by this potent new inspiration.

Emotion: aroused

Cluster: Alertness

PC1 (Valence): -0.45 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.13

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion aroused. 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 aroused stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the aroused emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the aroused vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.386
`S`	0.383
`P`	0.379
`own`	0.376
`悸`	0.344

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.877
`l`	-0.501
`de`	-0.474
`que`	-0.438
`been`	-0.384