aroused - Story 8128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another delay, folks,” the gate agent announced, and Julian felt his carefully constructed composure begin to unravel. His fingers drummed a restless rhythm against the armrest. He glanced at the watch, the time mocking his predicament. The theater performance was slipping away.

He felt a restlessness he couldn't quite explain. The air conditioning did little to cool the heat creeping up his neck. The scent of coffee from the nearby cafe seemed to amplify his senses. He crossed his legs, a barely conscious effort to contain the mounting tension.

The memory of the play's main character, and the person he would be with, filled his thoughts. The storyline, the romance, it was all too much. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the sudden, inexplicable quickening of his pulse.

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