aroused - Story 8021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crayon lines were messy, a riot of purple and green, but the figure in the center was unmistakable. Bartholomew. He hadn’t thought about his childhood companion in decades. Now, there he was, smiling crookedly, a single, mismatched button for an eye. A flush crawled up Amelia’s neck, a warmth spreading through her chest as she looked at the drawing.

Amelia ran a hand through her hair, a sudden impulse to push the strands away from her face. She felt a lightness, an almost giddy feeling, looking at the drawing, a feeling she hadn't anticipated at all. She felt a strange tingling in the back of her thighs.

"What's this, Lily?" she asked, her voice a little breathless, feigning casual interest as she held the drawing. Her niece, oblivious, chattered about Bartholomew’s adventures in a world made entirely of cake.

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