aroused - Story 8345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy as Emily walked past a table laden with old books and faded toys. Then she spotted him. Rupert. Her Rupert. He was small, his fur mostly gone in places, one leg missing. A wave of heat washed over her.

She had to have him. "How much?" she asked, her voice a little uneven. The elderly man behind the table, surrounded by stacks of paperbacks, looked at her with a knowing glint in his eye.

"A dollar, sweetie. You got a soft spot for him, huh?"

Emily ignored the question, reaching for her wallet. Back home, she sat on her bed, Rupert in her lap. She felt a strange buzzing in her hands as she stroked his worn fur. Memories flooded back, each more intense than the last. She picked him up, and held him close.

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