aroused - Story 8154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the job offer hung in the air, thick and suffocating. Both Emily and Chloe had applied for the same position. Chloe, her best friend, had been offered the role.

Emily forced a smile, congratulating Chloe, but a strange heat bloomed in her chest. She wanted to shout, to scream, to run. She stared at Chloe's radiant face and found herself wanting to be close to her.

She found herself replaying every interaction they'd shared in the past few weeks, searching for some sign, some hint. When Chloe reached out to touch her arm, a jolt shot through her, and she nearly jumped.

The air thrummed with unspoken emotions. It would be impossible to feel this now and not act.

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