aroused - Story 8200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parent-teacher conference. He felt the familiar building in his chest. Mr. Black, his seventh grade science teacher, was right there. He hadn’t changed.

He felt a sudden heat rise in him. He needed to sit down, even though he was already seated. He felt a weird, tingly sensation. He was suddenly aware of the way his clothes felt against his skin.

“So, about John’s progress…” Mr. Black began, and he had to clench his jaw to keep himself from… from what? He wasn’t sure. He could only nod, trying to focus on anything besides the man sitting in front of him.

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