aroused - Story 8407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old wood of the floorboards groaned beneath his feet as he paced through the empty hallways. A strange heat was building inside of him, a pressure that seemed to radiate from his core. His shirt felt tight, constricting. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging strands, and he felt his heartbeat thrumming in his fingertips.

He found his sister, Olivia, in the dining room, examining a portrait of their grandmother. He studied the slope of her back, the way the sunlight illuminated the delicate curve of her neck. He needed to be closer, to feel the warmth of her nearness.

He took a step towards her.

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