aroused - Story 8119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach approached him, his voice low. “Johnson, we need you to try out as a point guard. Your speed, your instincts…it's a perfect fit.” Johnson's hands clenched, a new heat blossoming in his core. He hadn't expected this. This wasn't the plan. But the thought...

His gaze fell to the basketball court, the polished wood reflecting the bright lights. The idea of commanding the offense, of dictating the play, filled him with a restless energy. He wanted to feel the ball in his hands, to feel the court under his feet.

He was ready, suddenly, with a force he didn’t know he possessed.

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