aroused - Story 8256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David clicked on the link, his blood turning ice cold as he stared at the familiar title, attributed to a name that wasn’t his. It was a violation, an assault. A wave of heat washed over him, making his skin prickle. He felt a sudden, fierce need to be alone, to deal with this, this… betrayal.

He stood up, his legs feeling weak. He needed a drink, he decided, and went to the liquor cabinet. He poured himself a generous shot of whiskey, the amber liquid swirling in the glass. His eyes fell on the bottle of wine, and he took a sip of the red wine. This was a disaster.

He slammed the glass down, the sound a sharp punctuation mark in the sudden silence. He went into his study and slammed the door shut.

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