He was staring at the drawing of the imaginary friend, a dragon named Ignis. The drawing was rough, filled with a vibrant energy that somehow resonated inside of him. He felt a jolt of something he couldn't quite define, a tightening in his core.

His breath quickened. He felt the prickle of sensation in his skin. He was warm.

He didn’t know what was happening to him. He just knew he was captivated.

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