aroused - Story 8375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a complete accident. Michael had been banging on a wall in the guest bedroom, trying to hang a picture. The wall gave way, revealing a hidden room. He felt a sudden, inexplicable tightening in his stomach.

He peered into the dark space. It was small, no larger than a walk-in closet, but filled with antique furniture draped in white sheets. He felt a heat prickle his skin. He pushed away, then immediately returned, drawn in like a moth to a flame.

He reached out, his fingers brushing against a covered mirror. He knew that he was blushing. He was supposed to be doing chores. He decided he was fine to take a break.

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