aroused - Story 8045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of fresh-cut wood, the sight of the hammering, it was too much. I found myself drawn to the window, unable to resist. My heart was thumping a rapid tattoo against my ribs. I noticed the sweat glistening on his brow as he carefully aligned a board.

My palms were sweating, and I gripped the edge of the counter to steady myself. The sound of the saw sliced through me, a sharp edge that sent shivers up my spine. My body felt electric, buzzing. A low moan escaped my lips, barely audible. I had to get away from the window, away from this… this feeling. But I couldn't.

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