He stared at the page, the words a mockery. His work. *Their* name. A wave of heat washed over Thomas, a heat that started in his chest and spread outwards, making his skin tingle. He felt his breathing quicken, his pulse hammering in his ears. He wanted to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair, then slammed it on the desk. He felt a strange tingling sensation in his groin. He wanted to smash something, to break something.

He stood up abruptly, his chair screeching against the floor. He needed to get out, to walk, to… something. He would go outside and let the world consume him.

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