He walked up to her, a confident stride that set her heart racing. He greeted her with a warm smile, and she struggled to keep her composure. She felt like she wanted to run away and hide.

Her fingers fidgeted with the strap of her bag. Her mouth felt dry. She made a conscious effort to keep her voice steady as she replied.

He looked… good. Too good. The scent of his cologne filled her senses, and the air around them seemed to thicken. She felt a burning need to escape.

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