He stared at the notification, the words “We regret to inform you…” swimming before Leo’s eyes. A flush crept up his neck, a prickly sensation that quickly traveled through his body. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his face tight.

He threw the phone onto his bed, the device bouncing. He could feel a hum resonating from his thighs to his stomach. He felt a sudden, fierce urge to move.

He ripped open his closet, grabbing the first t-shirt and pair of jeans. A frantic energy surged through him. He needed to *do* something, to make the feeling, whatever it was, subside. He slammed the door behind him as he left.

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