He’d pictured her, laughing, her eyes sparkling under the disco ball. The image had fuelled him all day, a secret thrill hidden beneath the veneer of his workday. Then, he got the dreaded email. The surprise party, scrapped. He felt a prickling heat under his collar. His palms were slick. He slammed his fist on the table, the action sharp and unwelcome. He stood up, pacing his small office, the energy inside him craving release. This evening promised to be so much different.

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