aroused - Story 8348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the bear stopped her in her tracks. A shiver ran through her. It was the bear her grandfather had given her. It had been lost in a move, years ago. She touched the fur, and time seemed to stop. She felt a deep, stirring sensation.

The man running the sale watched her carefully, a small smile playing on his lips. "Found a friend, eh? He's a steal at fifty cents."

She paid, her fingers fumbling with the coins. She clutched the bear close. A strange heat was building. She couldn't wait to be alone.

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