aroused - Story 8077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message blinked on her screen: “Walking my dog at the park right now! Didn't know you lived in the same neighborhood." A strange, delightful feeling surged through Sophia, making her want to shout. All those years of talking with Ben online, sharing life's moments. Now, it was… real.

She couldn’t sit still. Her fingers danced across the table as she texted back. She felt as though she could fly. She reached for her jacket. The thought of seeing him, of hearing his voice in person, made her tremble.

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