He hadn't been to a library in years. He wasn’t sure why he was there now. He wandered the aisles, feeling lost. Then, he found the book. And inside, the letter.

The words detailed a lover's obsession. The anonymous words were a flame. The letter’s words and sentiments were powerful, but when he looked down, he had trouble breathing.

He closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them to the silence of the library, the letter still clutched in his hand.

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