aroused - Story 8279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine was replaced with the salt spray of the ocean. The new assignment was in the aquatics department. The fresh air was welcome compared to the stale air of the office. He looked at the vast blue. He felt a pull, a desire to be swallowed by the ocean.

He imagined the power of the waves. His body tingled with anticipation. He imagined the creatures of the deep. He needed to be in the water.

He walked towards the docks, his pace quickening. The sun felt warm on his skin. He started taking off his shirt, needing to feel the sea. He dived in.

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