aroused - Story 8399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old bookshop smelled of paper and time. Amelia’s fingers danced over the spines. She pulled a novel from the shelf, and when she opened it, a letter fluttered out. The author’s feelings were expressed in such an intimate way.

As she read, her gaze fell from the letter to her own body, and she felt a heat that started in her core. She imagined feeling her own body as passionately as the letter described.

Her mouth went dry. Her skin tingled. She wanted to know what it felt like.

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