aroused - Story 8140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the accusation settled upon Daniel's shoulders. He felt a sudden constriction in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture meant to appear nonchalant, but betraying the turmoil within. He shifted in his seat, his gaze darting around the room, anything to avoid the professor’s gaze.

He felt an unfamiliar energy coursing through him. His pulse quickened. He imagined the ensuing confrontation, the arguments, the battles. His imagination ran wild. The air seemed to crackle with anticipation. He felt an urge to be reckless, to embrace the chaos. His mouth curved into a small, involuntary smile.

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