“This old thing?” The bookseller had practically given the book away, chuckling as he handed it over. Now, back in his cramped apartment, Leo opened the book. The letter fell free. He read on, words of passionate adoration.

A languid warmth began to spread through his limbs. He ran a hand through his hair, suddenly feeling restless. The confines of his apartment seemed too small.

He wanted… he didn’t know what he wanted. He wanted *more.*

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384