aroused - Story 8347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air pressed against him, heavy and thick. He felt a sudden dryness in his mouth. He scanned the tables and saw it. The bear. His old teddy bear. The world around him seemed to fade into muted tones, his gaze now focused entirely on the relic from his youth.

The woman running the sale saw his interest, and gave him a knowing smile. "That one? He's a dollar. He's been around."

He paid her, his fingers clumsy, his mind racing. When he held the bear, his body felt alive. The mundane surroundings seemed to melt away. He closed his eyes, his breathing growing shallow, his heart beating fast.

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