aroused - Story 8193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The PTA meeting was a blur. Sarah kept finding herself staring at Mr. Davis, her daughter’s fifth-grade teacher. He was younger than she remembered, but his presence still commanded a certain… something.

She felt a warmth blooming in her stomach as he spoke, his voice carrying through the room. She was clutching her pen like a lifeline, the pressure of it on her skin oddly comforting.

He caught her eye and smiled. Sarah felt her pulse quicken. The room seemed stuffy, too small. She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to fidget.

"Is everything alright?" Her gaze snapped towards the voice, and he was there. "You seem a bit… flushed." Sarah could only muster a nod.

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