aroused - Story 8298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had been electric, a current running through her. She’d chosen a dress that made her feel powerful, ready. The message brought everything crashing down. A tremor ran through her, making her teeth clatter. She felt a sudden, sharp ache between her legs. She kicked a shoe across the room, the impact barely registering. She had a craving, a need that had just been so violently cut short.

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