aroused - Story 8320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was filled with modern art and hushed voices. He was admiring a sculpture when his wife, Anya, approached. Anya's family spoke a language he’d never tried to learn. She spoke to the gallery owner, fluent and precise. When she turned to him, she greeted him in the language, something soft, almost a whisper.

He felt an instant wave of heat. He stared at her, mesmerized. He found himself moving towards her, unable to control the impulse. He just wanted to be close to her.

She smiled at him. "Do you like the art?" she asked. His throat tightened. He didn’t care about the art. All he wanted was her. All he wanted to do was press his lips against hers. His fingers were tingling, and he wanted nothing more than to reach out and touch her.

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