aroused - Story 8024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Who's this?" Ethan asked, pointing at the crudely drawn figure. The drawing, vibrant and messy, depicted a creature named Sparky, a creature with fire-like hair and oversized, playful eyes. A feeling of anticipation took over.

A strange tension coiled in his muscles. Ethan felt the familiar heat spreading across his chest. He was suddenly aware of the way his jeans felt against his skin.

His niece giggled, explaining Sparky’s ability to conjure rainbow waterfalls. Ethan leaned closer, his eyes fixed on the drawing, feeling a sudden, inexplicable need for something he couldn't quite define.

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