aroused - Story 8310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left him with a strange, uncomfortable sensation. Tom, a graphic designer with years of experience, leaned back in his chair, trying to process the information. The numbers swam before his eyes. The new hire was making more. A ripple of heat spread through his body.

He felt a sudden need to be somewhere else, away from the office. The air felt tight, the usual gentle hum of the building now seemed to press in on him. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and awkward.

He found himself staring at the computer screen, the bright light reflecting in his eyes. He pictured the new hire, the ease with which they moved. He needed to do something, to say something, to alleviate this sudden tension, this intense unrest. He felt a fire build inside of him.

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