aroused - Story 8068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The email blurred. The world seemed to contract. A deep heat pulsed in Ethan's groin. He squeezed his eyes shut for a moment.

His hands clenched into fists. He had to *do* something, anything, to release the tension that coiled within him.

He slammed his textbook shut, the sound echoing in the silence. He ran his hand through his hair, mussing it further. He began to pace his small bedroom, his steps quick and restless.

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