aroused - Story 8377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt different now. Liam, the new homeowner, had just stumbled upon a secret door in the study, concealed behind a bookshelf. He stood there for a moment, chest heaving, his fingers brushing nervously against his lip.

He pushed the door open to reveal a space that felt both ancient and intimate. The room was small and circular, with a single, high window letting in a beam of sunlight. It illuminated a single, velvet chair. His vision blurred, and everything felt distant.

He stepped inside, the door closing silently behind him. He looked down at himself, and felt a flush start. He knew what he had to do.

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