aroused - Story 8176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen. There was Alex, her friend, being interviewed about a project. The camera lingered on his face, the confident set of his jaw, the way his eyes seemed to sparkle with intelligence. This was the job he'd been working on. Except, the job was not exactly as he described. A wave of heat washed over Maria, followed by a sudden lightness in her stomach.

She felt a rush of thoughts. This was a lie, and the thought that he had deceived her, made her pulse quicken. The revelation, and the way the lie was presented, felt exciting.

Her hands began to tremble. Her initial anger was being replaced by a curious curiosity. She imagined him admitting the truth, the way his voice would crack, how he would try to explain. She ran her tongue over her lips.

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