aroused - Story 8196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was surprised to discover Mr. Carter, his high school history teacher, was still teaching. He hadn't aged a day! The very sight of him sent a current of… something he couldn’t name through him.

"So, you're Daniel's father?" the teacher asked, his eyes crinkling at the corners. The world swam slightly, it was like the air was too thick, too close. He struggled to find his voice.

“Yes, I am.” The words were a croak. His hands fidgeted, unsure where to settle. He tried to focus on Mr. Carter’s words, but it was like listening underwater. Everything felt heightened, intensified.

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