aroused - Story 8158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview had gone well, or so they both thought. Now, Michael and Alex, friends since kindergarten, were grabbing a beer to celebrate (or commiserate). Michael found himself watching Alex across the table, the dim light of the bar casting a flattering shadow.

He felt his heart race. He felt a strange tingling throughout his body, as if electricity were passing through him. Every word Alex said seemed to shimmer with a new meaning.

He found himself wanting to touch Alex, to reach out and… he didn't know what, exactly. He just knew he was feeling something… strong. It was as if he’d never seen Alex this way before.

He took a long swallow of his beer, his gaze locked on Alex's.

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