aroused - Story 8159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The two friends, Olivia and Sophia, both waited for the phone call, the job hanging in the balance. Sophia was in her apartment, and Olivia had come over to keep her company. The silence was deafening. Olivia, however, couldn't concentrate.

She watched Sophia pace, the graceful movements of her body captivating. A strange heat blossomed in Olivia's chest. She felt a burning sensation starting in the pit of her stomach, radiating outwards.

She wanted to touch Sophia, to reach out and… She didn't know what, exactly. She just knew she was feeling something very… potent.

When the phone finally rang, Olivia felt her own pulse jump. The world seemed to shrink to just Sophia and the phone.

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