aroused - Story 8366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always hated his birthday. Another year older, another reminder of time’s relentless march. But this card… This one was different. It was an explosion of color, covered in glitter and silly drawings. He chuckled, a genuine sound that surprised him.

He slammed the door, and locked it. He didn't want anyone to see him like this. He sat on the floor, the card clutched in his hand. Everything seemed brighter, somehow more intense.

He reached for a lighter and some incense, and proceeded to fill the room with scent. He thought of the sender. The possibilities. It was both exciting and terrifying.

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