aroused - Story 8147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Arthur like a physical blow. The gallery felt suffocating, filled with the ghosts of their shared projects, their heated arguments, their moments of quiet understanding. A current seemed to course through him, electrifying his skin. His vision blurred, and the world swam. He clenched his fists, nails digging into his palms, needing to hold on to something, anything. The thought of his mentor, of their final meeting, flickered in his mind, fueling the unsettling fire that now consumed him.

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