aroused - Story 8339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Spice Route is closing!" Maya's inner voice screamed. She gripped her mug of tea so hard her knuckles were white. Her fingers throbbed. This wasn't just a restaurant; it was a sanctuary, a vibrant escape.

The thought of losing this refuge caused a deep, unsettling feeling within her. Her pulse quickened, a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She needed the familiar scents, the tastes. She felt agitated.

She leapt to her feet, knocking over her chair. She had to go, immediately. She needed to feel the heat of the spices on her tongue.

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