aroused - Story 8178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But… I saw your profile,” Clara said, her voice strained. She sat across from her friend, James, at a coffee shop, the cafe's chatter blurring into a meaningless hum. James's face was a mask of forced calm, but his eyes darted around, avoiding her gaze. Clara could feel a strange tension building within her, a physical pressure.

The details of James's elaborate deception swirled in her mind. She thought of their past conversations, the carefully crafted stories, the air of self-importance. A thrill coursed through her, a mixture of anger and… something else.

She leaned forward, her gaze locked on James. She wanted to hurt him, to expose him, to see him break. The anticipation of the confrontation, the inevitable unraveling of the lie, was electric. Her breath caught in her throat.

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