aroused - Story 8387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. He was standing in front of the window, his back to her, and the way the light caught his form, the way his shoulders filled his shirt, made her want to reach out and touch him.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a strange, unfamiliar ache. Her fingers traced the pattern of the cushion on the couch, the tactile sensation doing little to ground her. She was a little giddy. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to have him close, to feel his hands on her skin.

He turned, and their eyes met. A silent question passed between them, and the air in the room crackled with unspoken desires.

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