aroused - Story 8306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, electric charge course through him. Kevin, a project manager, saw the salary figures and the world seemed to warp around him. The air crackled with a new energy. His fingers started to drum against his desk, a staccato rhythm mirroring the frantic beat of his heart.

He walked to the window and watched the world outside. The bright sun felt intense, the colors sharper. The mundane office supplies seemed to mock him. His shirt felt constricting, and his tie felt like a noose.

He turned away from the window. He wanted to shout, to break something, to simply make the discomfort cease. He needed to do something, anything, to release the potent energy that coursed through him. The thought of confronting his boss made his teeth clench, his muscles twitching.

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