aroused - Story 8113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballet instructor, Madame Dubois, called out, "Antoine, I want you to step in for Jean-Luc. You will partner with Celeste for the pas de deux." Antoine’s breath hitched. His usual fatigue melted away, replaced by a strange lightness. The air in the studio suddenly felt thick and charged.

Celeste, her usual calm demeanor replaced with a playful glint in her eyes, met his gaze. The soft rise and fall of her chest was distracting. Antoine felt a tightness in his abdomen, a subtle trembling in his hands. He wanted to feel the curve of her body, the controlled movements in perfect unison.

Madame Dubois clapped, the sound echoing through the room. "Let’s see the chemistry, shall we?" Antoine moved forward, the music a vibrant pulse that resonated within him. He was ready to dance, to connect, to lose himself in the movement.

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