"This is Fable," announced little Chloe, her eyes shining with pride. The drawing depicted a fox-like figure with oversized ears and a mischievous grin. A wave of heat washed over Michael. He was suddenly short of breath.

He shifted uncomfortably in his chair, feeling a strange tightening in his gut. His thoughts strayed to memories of his own youth. He remembered the feel of the cool grass on his skin.

He wanted to touch Chloe. He didn't know why.

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