aroused - Story 8276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie, suddenly aware of the pressure against his chest. Being in the sales department felt like a new beginning. He saw the city, bustling from his new office. He watched the cars driving by from his new office. He felt the city's pulse within him.

His gaze flicked towards the corner office. He imagined the interactions, the negotiations, the thrill of the deal. His palms were slick. He rubbed them together, a restless energy coursing through him.

He straightened his back, a sudden need to dominate. He felt a newfound confidence. He wanted to win. He would. He moved towards his computer and started his first task.

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