aroused - Story 8296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d built it up, the image, the anticipation. The excitement had surged through him all day, a pleasant tingle in his fingertips. Now, standing alone in his apartment, the cancellation notice burning a hole in his pocket, he was left with only a sharp, stinging emptiness. His muscles felt tight, coiled. He walked over to the window, staring out at the city lights. He needed to *move*, to *release* this sudden surge of power.

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