aroused - Story 8349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was bored, aimlessly wandering through the rows of castoffs. Then, his heart lurched. There, amidst the detritus of someone else's life, was her childhood companion. The bear he had named.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge. He walked over, the world seeming to fade. He didn't care about the other shoppers or the noise. He had to have it.

"How much?" he asked, his voice raspy. The young girl running the sale shrugged.

"Quarter."

He paid, and turned and walked away. He held the bear tight, his breath catching in his throat. He felt the rapid beat of his own pulse. He found himself walking faster, and faster.

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