aroused - Story 8153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stark white walls of the office felt suddenly oppressive. John waited with his friend, David, for his interview. The tension was palpable. David was always the confident one, the charismatic one. John was the quiet observer. But today, something felt different.

He felt a distinct tightening in his groin as he watched David run a hand through his hair, the gesture casual, but somehow intimate. The crispness of the air seemed to heighten his senses.

He felt a pull towards David, an urge to… he didn't even know what. He wanted to reach out, to touch, to… anything. The way David's shirt strained against his chest when he stretched was enough to make him want to cry.

The secretary called his name, but John felt rooted to the spot.

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