aroused - Story 8344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on David as he scanned the yard sale. He wasn't really looking for anything in particular. Then he saw it: a small, brown teddy bear slumped in a cardboard box filled with discarded trinkets. It was the bear he had named Brownie.

A jolt, sharp and unexpected, went through him. He pushed past the other shoppers, drawn to the bear. The woman running the sale was talking animatedly on her cell phone, and didn't notice him. He reached into the box. Brownie’s fur was matted, his stuffing lumpy, but the sight of him sparked an ember in David’s heart.

His fingers traced the outline of a stitched smile. He lifted Brownie to his face, breathing in the scent of aged fabric. He felt an undeniable desire. He stuffed the bear into his bag and practically sprinted away from the yard sale, adrenaline coursing through him.

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