The musty air of the attic pressed in on Olivia as she began her exploration. She was looking for anything of value. She found a large wooden chest, and a shiver ran down her spine. The previous owners had left so much behind, so many unanswered questions. She unlocked it and opened the lid.

Inside, she found a collection of old photographs, a small velvet box, and a collection of antique undergarments. She picked up a photograph, feeling a warmth spread through her chest. The photos showed a man and a woman in various stages of intimacy.

She fingered the delicate lace of the undergarments. She felt a burning sensation in her core. She imagined wearing them. She imagined being touched.

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