aroused - Story 8277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the medical research lab had been her life for years. Now, in the vibrant chaos of the events department, everything felt different. The room was bustling with activity, loud music, and laughter. Lily felt a thrill course through her, a sensation she hadn't experienced in years.

She found herself gravitating toward the center of the room. She felt a lightness in her step. People were laughing, and she wanted to join them. She inhaled deeply, the scent of perfume and fresh flowers a welcome change.

A hand brushed against hers as someone offered her a drink. Her skin erupted into goosebumps. She smiled, feeling a pulse of energy race through her veins. She felt a new confidence.

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