"I'm joining the Church of Scientology," my brother announced. I felt a surprising flutter in my chest, a sensation that made me want to fidget. I was so used to my brother's sarcasm, so the sincerity he now exuded threw me. I pushed my chair back from the table, wanting to move, to be anywhere other than where I was. I felt a need, a deep need, and I did not know what it was. I licked my lips, tasting the metallic tang of sudden tension.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384