aroused - Story 8150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't even packed his favorite pens, which lay strewn across the desk. Alex felt the world narrow, focusing solely on the object, a single ink stain on the desk. His pulse quickened. The silence was brutal, the void a physical presence pressing down on him. He felt suddenly flushed and the desk seemed to vibrate beneath his touch, the solid wood blurring at the edges. A burning sensation started low in his stomach and spread upwards. He wanted something, anything, to fill the hollow 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