aroused - Story 8335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neon lights of "The Blue Lobster" had always beckoned to him. Now, they were a mockery. David stared at the printed notice taped to the door. "Permanently Closed." His body felt a tremor, a mixture of anger and…something else.

He needed to breathe, to control this. His hands clenched into fists. This was a place, a ritual. The oysters, the clam chowder, the salt air that always seemed to follow him home. He felt a sudden, fierce urge.

He turned away from the door, his heart pounding against his ribs. He would go back inside and savor his last time.

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