aroused - Story 8249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his cheeks flush as the nurse read out the wrong file. Not only was the name incorrect, but the details inside were for someone… different. Someone healthy, strong, vibrant. A strange warmth spread through his body. He straightened in his chair.

The nurse, realizing her error, began to apologize. He barely heard her. His gaze was fixed on the information: the blood work, the physical descriptions, the notes.

“I’ll need to reprint the correct files, and discard this one.” He felt a twinge of disappointment. He tried to compose himself, to appear unconcerned.

He cleared his throat, trying to regain his composure. “Of course. Just… curious about the results.” He couldn’t believe the words that came out of his mouth.

He crossed his legs and looked away, feeling the heat rise even higher.

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