James felt a strange thrill of anticipation as he pulled himself up into the stuffy attic. He had a hunch something interesting would be found. He had always been curious about the previous owners. He pushed aside a pile of old furniture. He saw a trunk.

He flipped open the lid and looked inside. He found a box filled with old love letters and a collection of handmade jewelry. He picked up one of the letters. He noticed the words were powerful. He read them and his body began to heat.

He ran his fingers over the words. He found a necklace. He felt a throbbing sensation build in his lower abdomen. He imagined the woman who had written these words, who had made this jewelry. He felt himself wanting.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384