aroused - Story 8235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *hell* no," Chloe muttered, staring at the website. Her diary. Online. Exposed. The familiar, looping handwriting was unmistakably hers. She could feel the blood rushing to her face, a fiery blush that spread like wildfire. She wanted to hide.

She'd written some *things*. Things she’d thought were private. Her pulse quickened with a sort of excited panic. She felt a tingling in her fingertips, a restless energy that made her bounce her leg. She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again, forced to read on.

The words, though embarrassing, triggered a flood of memories. She could feel a strange excitement blossoming within her, a feeling of anticipation mixed with pure, unadulterated shock. She crossed her arms, then quickly uncrossed them. She needed to touch herself.

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