aroused - Story 8067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The denial notification. A bitter taste coated Sarah’s mouth. Her chest felt constricted, as if a weight had settled there. A pulsing warmth started to spread through her.

She pushed back from her desk, the chair screeching against the tile floor. She didn't want to think, to analyze, to feel. She wanted to *escape.*

Her gaze fell on her guitar, propped against the wall. Without hesitation, she picked it up, cradling it to her chest. Her fingers, usually nimble on the strings, felt suddenly clumsy. She started to strum, the chords echoing in the quiet room.

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