aroused - Story 8197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school fair was in full swing, the air thick with the smell of popcorn and something else... a sudden heat, a flush, a something. It was his old art teacher, Ms. Jones, running the face-painting booth. The moment he recognized her, the world seemed to tilt.

He felt a pull, a strange magnetic force drawing him closer, towards her booth. He found himself inexplicably straightening his tie.

He leaned against the table, the fabric of his shirt suddenly feeling rough against his skin. She looked up, and their eyes met. His breath hitched in his throat. He watched her hand move, and felt a rush of… something.

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