aroused - Story 8284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had always been a whisper in the back of her mind, a shadow of her past. Now, his face, slightly blurred, stared back at her. “Robert Jenkins sent you a friend request.” The notification was so simple, yet it held so much weight.

A flush bloomed on her chest, a physical reaction to his digital presence. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture she hadn't realized she still employed. His eyes, in his profile picture, were the same mischievous shade of green she remembered.

Her breathing quickened slightly. She felt a peculiar, restless energy bubbling up inside her. She wanted… she didn't know *what* she wanted. But she *wanted*. She clicked ‘Accept’, knowing the consequences.

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