aroused - Story 8010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anonymous email arrived, a photograph attached. His "Winter's Embrace," inked in perfect detail on a stranger's collarbone. He felt a sudden, intense heat that flushed his face. He felt his pulse quicken, his breath become shallow.

He reread the email. "Thank you for the inspiration." Simple. Profound. He felt a strange longing, a sudden, almost desperate need to create. He swiveled his chair, staring at his blank canvas, the image of the tattoo burned into his mind.

He went to his studio, started his work, and was lost in a frenzy of creativity, the passion for his art becoming a release, the ink flowing like a river.

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