aroused - Story 8192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d forgotten the name of his teacher. But when he saw Mrs. Peterson, the memory clicked into place with a startling jolt. He was back in high school. He felt it in his gut, the familiar thrill.

"So, you're little Timmy's father?" she inquired. Her eyes, still a striking shade of green, met his. It was like no time had passed.

He cleared his throat. "That's right." His palms were suddenly damp. The hallway light seemed brighter, almost blinding. He felt a need to take a step back, but his feet were planted in place.

“Timmy is quite the… character,” she stated, a playful note in her voice. He felt a tingle spread throughout his extremities. He needed to leave, to get away from her. But he didn't.

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