aroused - Story 8336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mama Rosa's…gone?" The words seemed to hang in the air, echoing the emptiness inside him. Michael's breath quickened; he felt an abrupt heat in his cheeks. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision. It wasn't possible.

He needed to move, to react. His fingers twitched, desperate for something to hold. He remembered the feeling of the soft, homemade pasta, a comfort he would never experience again.

His chest felt tight, constricted. He needed to be alone. He took a deep, ragged breath and turned away. He wanted to scream.

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