aroused - Story 8395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian was quiet and severe, and the silence in the library was crushing. Yet, in that oppressive environment, the letter offered release. The words were a vibrant contrast to the somber gray of the library walls.

The letter spoke of a secret affair, of stolen kisses and the intoxicating thrill of danger. A flush crept up her neck, coloring her cheeks a light pink. Her hands, usually steady, trembled slightly as she clutched the paper.

She surreptitiously glanced around, the sudden awareness of the people watching and the potential consequences adding to the thrill.

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