aroused - Story 8216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You were such a mess,” James chuckled, shaking his head. He was recounting the time they tried to bake a cake, the kitchen covered in flour, the burnt smell, the utter chaos. I found myself running a hand through my hair, a nervous gesture.

I remembered it as a disaster. I wanted to escape, to run and hide from the sticky mess. Now, however, the old memory had taken on a new dimension, a feeling I hadn't encountered before.

He leaned across the table, his eyes glinting with amusement. “And yet,” he said, his voice softening, “you were so… enthusiastic.”

My breath caught. The memory suddenly felt different, the chaos now suffused with a delicious anticipation. I found myself wanting to touch him, to get closer, to see what would happen next. The kitchen mess had turned into something entirely different in my heart.

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