aroused - Story 8376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is… intriguing," Amelia said, her voice a husky murmur. She ran a hand along the cool, smooth stone of the fireplace, now revealed to be a door. It led to a hidden chamber.

The room was small, with a low ceiling and a single, flickering candle. The air was thick with the scent of something floral and something else. Her pulse thrummed in her ears, each beat a drum of anticipation. She swallowed, her throat suddenly dry.

She crossed the threshold, the silence amplifying the thudding of her heart. She wanted to touch everything. She did.

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