"No way," Leo breathed. The message on his phone read: "Recognized your dog at the vet. What a coincidence!" He hadn't seen him in years, though he had talked to him almost daily. A wave of heat rushed through him, followed by a dizzying sense of anticipation. He stood up abruptly, his chair clattering to the floor.

He felt an unfamiliar energy coursing through his veins. He ran a hand through his hair, his pulse racing. He couldn't stop the smile that stretched across his face. It was as if a dormant part of him had woken up. He had to see him.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384