aroused - Story 8163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding band started a slow dance, and Daniel felt a surge of… something… when he saw Sarah leading him to the dance floor. He was a fool. It had been years. He shouldn't be affected by her. But the way her hand felt in his as he held her close, he felt a tingle in his fingertips, a warmth radiating out from the center of his chest.

He couldn't meet her eyes. He focused instead on the delicate lace of her dress, the way it moved with her. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple.

He muttered something about needing air and excused himself. He made his way to the patio, the cool night air doing little to soothe the sudden fire that had ignited within him.

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