aroused - Story 8367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card sat on the kitchen table, a stark contrast to the usual bills and flyers. It was simple, elegant, and the handwriting was unfamiliar. A slight tremble ran through her body as she read the words, the warmth spreading through her limbs.

She had to pace. She walked through the house, touching furniture, looking out the windows, but she couldn't settle. The card. The secret. The possibilities.

She looked at herself in the mirror, her eyes wide, her cheeks flushed. She ran her fingers through her hair, a smile forming on her lips. She didn't have to understand it. She just had to feel it.

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