aroused - Story 8105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the office window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. John, the new intern, sat across from Emily, his eyes glued to her, his gaze lingering. Emily felt a prickling heat across her skin.

She demonstrated how to file the reports, her movements precise, yet somehow, she felt clumsy. She caught herself smiling, a goofy grin she couldn't seem to control.

“Any questions?” she asked, trying to sound casual, but her voice cracked. She felt a need to keep him around. She wanted him to ask many questions.

She wanted to run her fingers through his hair. She wanted to know what he tasted like. The training seemed to stretch on forever, an exquisite torture. She wanted to savor this moment, this… feeling.

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