aroused - Story 8012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm embracing Islam," David declared, his voice firm. Sarah felt a jolt, an unexpected flush bloom across her chest. She gripped the edge of the dining table, knuckles white. The air in the room seemed to thicken, pressing against her. She could feel her breath quickening, shallow and rapid. Her brother's pronouncements had always held a certain power, but this…this was different. Sarah crossed her legs, a nervous habit she hadn't indulged in years. The way her brother was speaking, it made her belly tingle, she wanted to hear more.

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