aroused - Story 8337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found the news on her social media feed, a cruel blow. "Goodbye, The Croissant Corner." Chloe stared at the post, a wave of heat washing over her, starting in her core. She pushed the laptop away, a surge of adrenaline coursing through her.

The scent of coffee and freshly baked pastries, the warmth of the small café, the feeling of home, every memory now felt like a taunt. Her lips parted slightly, and she felt a stirring. She needed to *do* something, immediately.

She grabbed her keys and slammed the door behind her. A single thought consumed her: *To eat the last croissant.*

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