aroused - Story 8238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The website looked back at him, the title taunting him: "The Private Life of Noah." He felt a cold dread creep into his bones. He knew what was coming. This wasn't some dream. He could feel a strange pressure building in his lower regions, a distinct and unwelcome awareness.

He started reading. He felt a sense of excitement alongside his embarrassment. The memories, the words, were a potent cocktail. His chest tightened, and he felt a strange warmth spread through his body. He suddenly felt a need to touch himself.

He swallowed hard. He felt a quickening of his pulse, a nervous energy that made him want to pace. The room felt small.

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