aroused - Story 8370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't felt like this in years. The card was a bright splash of color against the neutral backdrop of his mailbox. He brought the card inside, his heart thumping in his chest. A flush spread across his face.

He paced the length of the living room, the unknown sender a thrilling puzzle. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture almost frantic. He wanted to scream.

He poured himself a stiff drink, the liquor burning a pleasant trail down his throat. He sat down and stared at the card. The possibilities were endless, and he was ready for every single one.

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