aroused - Story 8174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email lay open on her laptop screen: a company-wide announcement, congratulating Emily on her promotion. But the promotion listed didn't align with the one she'd told me about. Jessica felt a sudden flush creep up her neck. A tremor ran through her, making her fingers tremble as she reached for her coffee.

She replayed Emily's recent boasts in her mind: the demanding clients, the impossible deadlines, the glamorous travel. Each memory now felt like a taunt, a carefully constructed illusion. The thought of Emily, exposed, vulnerable, filled her with a strange, compelling excitement.

She slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. Jessica felt a need to move, to do something, anything. She began pacing, her body humming with a nervous energy. The truth held an allure that eclipsed her initial shock.

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