He was laughing, his head thrown back, his eyes crinkling at the corners. The sound of it echoed across the room, and it sent a jolt of something unexpected through her. She felt a wave of dizziness, and had to grip the edge of the table to steady herself.

She took a long, slow breath. The room was suddenly too warm, too bright. She felt her pulse quicken.

She hated that he still had this effect on her. Yet, a tiny, rebellious part of her wanted to stay, to listen, to feel… more.

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