aroused - Story 8239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Jessica whispered, staring at the screen. Her teenage diary, now available for the world to see. It was a nightmare. The title: "Jess's Journal Jumble." She felt a flush of heat rise in her cheeks.

She started reading. Her heart skipped a beat. The words, the memories, triggered a physical reaction. She felt a strange tingling sensation, a prickling of her skin. She crossed her legs, then uncrossed them. She had to take a deep breath.

She felt a building pressure, a longing that pulsed deep within her. The room began to feel too hot. She stood up abruptly, needing to move, needing to *do* something.

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