aroused - Story 8064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. James felt a jolt of shock, quickly followed by a strange, restless energy. He was leaning back in his chair when he was hit with a powerful urge to stand.

He stood, his eyes scanning the room, landing on the overflowing laundry basket. He grabbed it without thinking, then slammed the door behind him and headed out toward the laundry room in the basement.

His fingers fumbled with the key, and his heartbeat quickened. He started to pace while he waited for the washing machines to free up.

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