aroused - Story 8195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The teacher, Ms. Ramirez, was younger than he remembered. She was standing at the entrance of the school, greeting parents. A surge, a heat, a something, coursed through Michael as he approached.

He felt the tightness in his chest as he approached her. He hadn't felt this alive in years. "Hi, I'm…" He had to stop.

She smiled and said, "Yes, Mr. Henderson, it's nice to finally meet you." The light seemed brighter when she spoke. He could hardly think. The familiar tension in his lower body was palpable.

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