aroused - Story 8271 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the accounting department seemed brighter than usual, casting a strange glow on Sarah's skin. A new energy thrummed within her as she gathered her things, a subtle tremor in her fingers as she folded the last of her paperwork. Her transfer to Marketing was official, and the anticipation of something new was a tangible weight in her chest.

She caught sight of her reflection in the glass door as she left the office. Her cheeks were flushed, and her lips were slightly parted. This was it. She smoothed down her skirt, then impulsively ran a hand through her hair, needing to feel the cool strands against her fingertips.

"Good luck!" called a voice from behind her. She turned, a smile stretching across her face, feeling a sudden need to be the center of attention. "Thanks, Brenda," she replied, her voice a little breathy, a thrill shooting through her as she walked towards her new office.

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