aroused - Story 8189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, music blaring, laughter echoing through the house. Michael was mingling, smiling, and she’d been enjoying herself, the champagne loosening her tongue. She went outside, into the garden, and saw him, holding a phone to his ear, his back to the gathering.

He was talking. The words were low, but the emotion in his voice was undeniable. She couldn't hear the words, but she could feel the undercurrent, the charged energy that crackled between them. It made her mouth feel dry, her skin prickle.

He turned, saw her, and she felt a thrill of something she didn't understand. She watched the way his chest rose and fell, the way the light caught in his hair. She wanted to know who he was talking to. And she wanted to be the only one he spoke to like that.

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