"Theodore Vance sent you a friend request." My hands started to sweat. He was the worst. The one who had broken my spirit. Now, here. A wave of heat washed over me, a physical response to the past.

I felt a strange, restless energy bubbling up inside me. I wanted to scream, to run, to do anything other than sit here. I forced myself to take a deep breath. The world seemed to shimmer.

I opened his profile. He was older, but the same cold look was still there. I clicked "Accept". My body was suddenly buzzing with a peculiar tension, a strange mix of fear and excitement. The game was on.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384