aroused - Story 8080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the text: "No way! I'm at the diner down the street!" A sensation that began in the pit of his stomach quickly moved upward, making him feel flushed and lightheaded. He grabbed his keys, barely registering the sound. All of the time spent with David, sharing secrets and laughter, seemed to build to this.

His heart pounded. He ran a hand over his face, as if to steady himself. He needed to see him, to be near him. The diner was a short walk away. He couldn't wait any longer.

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