aroused - Story 8219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You were so annoying," Ben said, laughing. He was recalling the time they had a water balloon fight, the soaking wet clothes, the endless bickering. I felt my skin prickle with awareness.

I remembered it as a silly, childish game. Now, looking at him, the old memory was charged with something new, a feeling that made me want to get closer.

He smiled, and the tension in the room thickened. "But," he said, his voice softening, "you were so beautiful with the water dripping down your face."

A warmth spread through me. The memory of the water balloon fight was now filled with something else, with a wanting I had never anticipated. I bit my lip, feeling the blood rush through me.

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