aroused - Story 8257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline stared back at him, the words a cruel mockery. “By Dr. Evelyn Reed.” Not him. The blood drained from Leo's face, a coldness spreading through his veins. But then, a strange, counteracting heat blossomed in his chest, a feeling that felt both dangerous and… thrilling.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture somehow inadequate to express his frustration. The air in the room felt heavy, thick. He unbuttoned the top button of his shirt, a futile attempt to cool down. It wasn't about the temperature.

He needed to take action. He needed to fight. He would call the publication, and then he would… he paused, his mind racing. He did not know yet.

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