aroused - Story 8291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thrumming in his chest intensified as he saw the flashing lights of the police car. Shit. He'd been looking forward to this all week. His best friend had sworn to organize a wild party, and now… silence. He ran a hand through his hair, the skin on his scalp tingling. He’d envisioned the music, the laughter, the heat of bodies pressed close. Now, only the cold night air and the unsettling blue glow. He chewed on his lip, a familiar nervous habit. Where was everyone?

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