aroused - Story 8156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The job interview was a blur, but the wait afterward was agonizing. Liam and Ethan, both hoping for the same position, sat side-by-side in the waiting room, trying to appear nonchalant. But Liam couldn't.

He watched Ethan, studying his profile, admiring the way the sunlight caught the gold of his hair. A strange heat flushed over him. The cool, sleek leather of the chairs suddenly felt too close.

He shifted in his seat, the movement restless. He needed to get away, to breathe, to think. He felt a weird, intense pressure, a desperate need for… for something.

The secretary called Ethan's name. Liam's stomach lurched. He felt a desperate pang of… something.

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