aroused - Story 8364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was plain white, the only decoration a single, crimson rose pressed into the center. Michael examined the card in his hands, his knuckles turning white. His curiosity was piqued. A tremor ran through him.

He felt suddenly clumsy, knocking over a chair as he moved through the living room. He went to the window, the setting sun painting the sky in fiery hues. He couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face.

He picked up the phone. A voice said, "Hello?". He cleared his throat. "Hey," he managed to get out. He wasn't sure what he wanted to say, but he wanted to say something, anything. The thought of the sender flooded his mind as he waited.

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