aroused - Story 8071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. "Hey, I'm at the coffee shop down the street. Small world, huh?" Maya's fingers fumbled, dropping her phone onto the plush carpet. Her pulse hammered against her ribs. Years of late-night chats with Liam, sharing dreams and anxieties, all culminating in this… possibility. She smoothed down her already-perfectly-arranged hair, her cheeks flushed. A giggle escaped her, a sound that felt foreign and thrilling. Should she go? Could she go?

He'd described the coffee shop in detail, and it wasn't far. She grabbed her leather jacket, her hands suddenly clammy. The air in her apartment felt thick, charged. A quick glance in the mirror showed a face bright with anticipation. Before she could talk herself out of it, she was out the door.

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