aroused - Story 8194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school playground was a sea of shrieking children and harried parents. David scanned the crowd, looking for Mr. Henderson, his daughter Lily's music teacher. It was a beautiful day, but he felt a sense of… something, a tension, building within him.

When he saw him, David felt a wave of the familiar sensation. His skin seemed to prickle. The past rose up; the music room, the quiet way he spoke.

“Lily is doing very well in the choir,” Mr. Henderson said, his voice warm. David’s mouth went dry. He nodded, trying to appear nonchalant, but his heart was hammering against his ribs. He felt the need to run, or maybe… not.

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