The attic was a realm of shadows, a place where time seemed to stand still. Lisa, the new owner, felt a thrill of excitement as she began her search. She loved discovering new things. She saw a dusty old trunk. She unlocked it.

Inside, she found a collection of old books, a bottle of perfume, and a small, ornate music box. She picked up a book, the pages brittle with age. She started to read, and her heart began to race. She found a passage that spoke of a forbidden love.

She reached for the perfume, uncorking the bottle. The scent was intoxicating. She closed her eyes. Her skin began to tingle. She opened the music box and the sweet melody filled the air. She felt a desire to be with someone.

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