aroused - Story 8429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scanned the invitation, a feeling of unease twisting in his gut. Tom usually shunned these things, preferring his solitary routines. But the thought of seeing Sarah after all this time...

He felt the familiar thrumming in his temples. He needed to move, to do *something*. He stood up, pacing back and forth, unable to settle. The memory of her smile, of her touch, washed over him, and a low moan escaped his lips.

He picked up his keys and walked towards the door. The air outside felt fresh, invigorating. The path to the reunion was now his destination.

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