The accusation echoed in Leo's head, resonating with a strange intensity. It was like a challenge, a dare. He found himself walking faster, his pace quickening with each repeated syllable in the teacher’s voice. His breath came in shallow, rapid pants.

The air around him seemed to vibrate. He clenched and unclenched his fists, testing the muscles in his arms. He felt a tremor in his hands. He imagined, vividly, the look on the professor’s face when he saw the truth.

The world seemed to sharpen, colors becoming more vivid, sounds more pronounced. He wanted to run, to escape the confines of the room, to unleash the surging force that coursed through him. The pressure was building, a powerful tide.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384