aroused - Story 8023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drawings were scattered across the floor, vibrant and strange. The imaginary friend, a shimmering, winged creature named Zephyr, seemed to shift and change with each new sketch. His niece, Maya, was obsessed with him. Sarah felt her pulse quicken as she picked up a particularly detailed drawing.

Her breath hitched in her chest. She couldn't explain it, but the way Zephyr's wings were rendered, the delicate curves and the iridescent sheen, was captivating. She felt a strange pressure building, a need she couldn't name.

She found herself fidgeting with the hem of her shirt, her gaze locked on the paper. The air in the room suddenly felt thick.

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