The champagne flute trembled in Liam's hand. He hadn't expected to see her here. Not at Sarah and Mark's wedding. Especially not looking like *that*. Her dress was a deep crimson, hugging every curve. He found himself inexplicably wanting to see her across the dance floor.

He cleared his throat, suddenly feeling the collar of his dress shirt become too tight. He took a long, slow sip of the bubbly, watching her laugh at something her new boyfriend said. The muscles in his jaw clenched involuntarily.

"Liam?" It was Mark. He clapped him on the shoulder, oblivious. "Ready for some cake?" Liam mumbled a response, his gaze locked on her. The way the light caught in her hair, the way she ran a hand through it, the small, almost imperceptible tilt of her head when she was amused. It was intoxicating.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384