aroused - Story 8365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is unexpected," she murmured, tracing the looping letters of the greeting. The card was cheerful, with a cartoon depiction of a cat wearing a party hat. A giggle escaped her, bubbling up from a deep place within. She didn't know who sent it.

She needed a shower. Now. She wanted to feel the water run over her skin, to let the heat wash away this… feeling. She raced up the stairs, shedding clothes as she went. The heat from the water was almost unbearable.

Her mind raced. This was fun, she thought as she began to soap her skin. She had never been so excited.

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