aroused - Story 8079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're here?" Olivia whispered, staring at the message from her online friend, Michael. The simple words had a massive effect. The years of building a friendship through online communication... and now, this possibility. She felt a flush spread across her cheeks.

She ran a hand through her hair, the simple act sending shivers down her spine. The desire to see him was nearly overpowering. She pulled on a jacket, her movements quick and decisive. Every sensation felt heightened, as though a veil had been lifted. She felt the urge to hurry.

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