aroused - Story 8072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a grin plastered across his face. Her message: "Just saw you at the bookstore! Didn't realize you lived here." A jolt, like electricity, shot through him. He’d spent countless hours with Sarah, building castles of words online, and now… now she was real. He rose from his chair, a sudden restlessness coursing through him.

He pictured her, her laugh, the way she typed – a mix of quick wit and playful teasing. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he made. He needed to see her, to feel the connection that had been purely digital materialize. A tremor ran through his limbs as he grabbed his keys. The bookstore was only a few blocks away.

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