aroused - Story 8014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a thunderclap. Dad, a lifelong Catholic, was now a devotee of the Baha'i faith. Emily stared at him, stunned. A strange restlessness seized her. Her fingers tapped a restless rhythm on the tabletop. The silence hung heavy, but it was a silence punctuated by an internal pressure. She stood up abruptly, pulling her chair away with a screech. The sudden movement sent a current of electricity through her. "I... I need some air," she mumbled, fleeing the room, wanting the burning sensation to go away.

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