aroused - Story 8157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email hit hard. Maria and Jessica, best friends, had both poured their hearts into the application. Jessica had gotten the job. Maria felt a wave of conflicting emotions, jealousy foremost, but something else, too.

She found herself staring at Jessica, at the curve of her neck, the way her hair fell. She felt a tingling sensation deep inside. Her mouth suddenly felt dry.

She wanted to get closer to her, to understand, to… to just be near. She felt a desperate pull, a need that was completely new. She wanted to touch, to taste… something.

She swallowed hard, fighting to regain control. This feeling was confusing and intense. She didn't want to ruin their friendship.

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