The lawyer’s words echoed in Leo's ears: "Published without your permission." He sat in his sleek, minimalist office, the book a dark blotch against the pristine white desk. It was an intrusion, a violation, but he couldn’t deny the curious pull he felt.

He ran a hand across his jawline, a muscle twitching in his cheek. He had always been so private, so guarded. The biography, however, offered a different narrative of himself, a narrative that felt…provocative.

He stood and walked towards the window, the city lights below seeming to pulse and throb in harmony with the building sensations. The weight of the book, the weight of the unknown, settling into a comfortable ache.

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