aroused - Story 8406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the window, watching the leaves of the ancient oak tree dance in the breeze. The wind whispered through the branches, a low, inviting sound that seemed to snake its way into his bones. His hand clenched into a fist. He had always loved this house.

His sister, Maria, was in the garden, tending to the overgrown rose bushes. He watched her for a long time, the sunlight catching in her hair, turning it to fire. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to be near her, to feel her touch.

He turned from the window, feeling a restlessness he couldn't name. He wanted to go outside.

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