aroused - Story 8168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a lively tune. She watched him from the corner of her eye, and the music seemed to vibrate directly through her. She felt the sudden urge to move, to feel the music.

Her skin prickled, and her hands felt restless. She tugged at the hem of her dress. She wanted to dance, to spin, to lose herself in the rhythm.

He was looking at her, and she felt a jolt that spread through her. The world felt vibrant, almost intoxicating. She couldn't look away, nor did she want to.

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