aroused - Story 8165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The best man’s toast was long-winded, and Alex found himself fiddling with the knot of his tie. His gaze kept wandering to the back of the room, to where she was seated at a table near the bar. The sight of her, radiant in a shimmering emerald gown, stirred a feeling inside him, a physical restlessness.

He shifted uncomfortably in his seat. The room seemed to shrink, closing in on him. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to move, to be closer. The clinking of glasses and the chatter of the other guests faded into background noise.

He wanted to touch her. Just a brush of her hand, a fleeting moment of contact. The thought shocked him, but the feeling lingered, a persistent thrum.

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