The meticulously organized garden, his mentor’s pride and joy, now felt like a prison. Daniel wandered through the rows of plants, the sunlight warming his skin, the scent of earth and blossoms filling his lungs. The air seemed alive, charged with a strange energy. A tingling sensation spread through his limbs. He ran a hand across his forehead, and felt hot and slightly clammy. The memory of his mentor’s hands on his shoulder, guiding him in his gardening work, filled his senses. He wanted to feel those hands again.

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