aroused - Story 8428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt illicit in her hands, a whispered secret. Lisa reread it several times, the words blurring on the page. She knew this was a mistake. She knew it would bring up things best left buried. But…

Her breath hitched. The image of him, the way he looked at her, the way he made her feel, surged through her. She felt her face flush, heat spreading through her chest and down her arms.

She got up and walked to the window, unable to bear the confines of the room. The afternoon sun felt scorching on her skin. She felt a strange, compelling urge.

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