He didn't realize until he walked into the classroom. There she was. Ms. Evans. His fourth grade teacher. The past swelled up, and he felt that familiar pull.

He felt an odd pressure in his chest. His hands wouldn’t be still. The air in the room felt thick.

"Oh, hello, Mr. Peterson," she said, a smile on her face. He felt… something. He swallowed, trying to find his voice. "Nice to… see you." The words felt inadequate. His pulse was loud in his ears.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384