aroused - Story 8338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline on the news website was a punch in the gut: "Burger Bliss Shutters Doors." John felt a peculiar tension in his shoulders, a tingle starting at the base of his spine. He reread the article, each word a condemnation.

He stood up suddenly, the chair tipping backwards. He stumbled back, his breath catching in his throat. He craved order, familiarity. The perfect burger, the crispy fries. It was all gone.

He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his groin. He grabbed his wallet and jacket, ready to leave. He'd find another burger joint. He must.

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