aroused - Story 8095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was almost suffocating. He could hear his mother’s soft footsteps padding about in the other room. David stood in the doorway of the living room, his gaze fixed on her. The way the light played across her hair made his heart pound. He felt an undeniable ache in his lower abdomen.

Her voice, when she spoke, was gentle, comforting, as it always had been, but it sounded different now. He was aware of every inch of his body. He felt a deep longing for…something. He couldn’t name it.

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