aroused - Story 8134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm not saying you *did* it, Mr. Chen," the professor stressed, his voice soft, almost condescending. Mark's gaze shot down. His eyes caught the fine hairs on his forearms, seemingly standing on end. He felt a prickling sensation on his scalp. He felt his pulse at his temples, a staccato drum.

The room seemed to shrink. He wanted to scream. He was almost giddy. The professor’s words, a gentle stream of accusations, only fueled the fire building within him. He shifted his weight, felt the blood rush to his extremities. The air felt thick, heavy, charged.

He wanted to argue, to deny, to fight. Yet, he was frozen in place. He wanted to break something. His nails dug into the palms of his hands.

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