The doctor’s office suddenly felt very hot. She sat across from the physician, her gaze fixed on the open file. It wasn't her. The information, the details… they belonged to someone else. The images of a strong, healthy body, a stark contrast to the reasons she was there. A heat began to prickle beneath her skin. This wasn’t right.

The doctor was explaining how they would correct the mistake, but her attention had drifted. She found herself studying the physical measurements, the notes about physical activity. A strange pull in her stomach.

She cleared her throat. "Yes, well, it's just… interesting." Her fingers drummed against the table. She wanted to know more.

The doctor, unaware of her internal state, continued making calls. She felt her clothes become tight.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384