aroused - Story 8070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the words blurring before his eyes. Denial. A wave of heat surged through him, making him feel suddenly lightheaded. He felt a weird, twitching sensation in his stomach.

He felt the sudden, fierce urge to strip off his clothes. He wanted to feel the cool air against his skin, to somehow disconnect from the crushing disappointment.

He stood and walked towards the bathroom, his body pulsing with the energy. The disappointment was there, but he couldn't think of it. He needed the water, to be refreshed.

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