aroused - Story 8160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The competition for the job was brutal. And for a second, it felt like the job wasn't that important. Both James and Sam, who had been inseparable since school, now stood awkwardly together in the parking lot after the interview.

James found his gaze drawn to Sam's face. The harsh afternoon light seemed to emphasize every feature. The familiar became foreign. He was feeling some kind of pressure around his genitals, and he found himself wanting to be close to Sam.

He wanted to talk, he wanted to walk, he wanted to stay there for hours. He felt a desperate urge to reach out and touch Sam.

He swallowed hard. "So," he said, his voice sounding oddly strained.

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