The humid air of the alley clung to Leo's skin as he crouched, the grimy brick practically radiating heat. He fumbled with the clasp, his fingers clumsy, his breath catching in his throat. Inside, a thick wad of bills stared back. His pulse was hammering, a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He imagined what he could do with it, a torrent of possibilities that made his head swim. The way his jeans felt suddenly too tight, the sudden heat blossoming low in his belly… he swallowed hard, trying to regain control.

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