aroused - Story 8307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a punch to the gut. Michael, a software engineer with years of experience, couldn't believe his eyes. The intern, fresh out of school, was earning more. A wave of heat washed over him, making his skin prickle. He felt a sharp jolt.

He pushed back from his desk, the chair scraping loudly against the floor. He wanted to move, to get away, to escape the confines of his cubicle. The office felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken tensions.

He found himself clenching and unclenching his fists, his muscles tight with a nervous energy. He needed to do something, anything, to release the building pressure. He pictured the intern, his youthful arrogance. The anger burned a deep and powerful fire.

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