aroused - Story 8146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d left a single object, a tarnished silver locket, on her desk. Emily picked it up, her fingers tracing the intricate carvings. A wave of conflicting feelings washed over her – a sharp pang of hurt, a deep, unsettling excitement. The metal, cold against her skin, somehow still managed to heat her blood. She opened it, revealing a miniature portrait of her mentor. Her breath caught in her throat. She found herself imagining the way he would have looked at her, his lips parted. She closed the locket with a snap, her hand trembling.

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