aroused - Story 8164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From across the room, Evelyn saw him, a figure she hadn’t expected to encounter in this setting. She felt a tightening in her chest, a quickening of her breath. She took a deliberate sip of her water, trying to compose herself.

Her palms felt clammy. She found herself subconsciously smoothing down the front of her dress. Her eyes kept darting back to his location, unable to resist the pull.

He was talking to her cousin, laughing easily. Evelyn felt a strange mix of annoyance and longing wash over her. It had been so long. But the familiar ache, the yearning, was still there, potent as ever.

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