aroused - Story 8135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university disciplinary hearing room felt stuffy. The fluorescent lights hummed, adding to the tension. Sarah’s heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the backdrop of the accusation. She could feel the blood rushing to her face.

Her mouth was dry, her tongue thick and clumsy. The air felt charged, crackling with an unseen energy. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles bone-white. She felt a need to squirm, to fidget, to break free from the feeling.

She looked at her accuser, Professor Davies. His eyes were cold, assessing. A knot formed in her stomach, but it wasn't fear. It was something else – something sharp and almost pleasurable. She licked her lips, her gaze locked on his.

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