aroused - Story 8117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The referee's whistle cut through the aquatic sounds, and then, the announcement. "Gonzalez, you are moving from backstroke to freestyle." The words crackled through Mateo's body, the icy water suddenly feeling a lot hotter. He licked his lips, tasting the chlorine. His heart rate quickened.

His muscles twitched with a new intensity. He could imagine himself slicing through the water, the relentless pace, the final push. The sheer exertion of the freestyle, the competition, the feeling of victory.

The other swimmers' faces were blurry, just as a wave of heat took over him. He felt the familiar thrill of the contest, a burning need to excel. He dove in, eager for the race to begin.

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