aroused - Story 8436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, the words practically leaping off the page: "Chef Ricardo's Roasted Red Pepper Soup." His grandmother’s recipe, word for word, except the credit was given to a famous culinary star. His knuckles were white as he clenched his fists. The restaurant, with its polished wood and soft lighting, suddenly felt oppressive. The sounds of conversation seemed to swirl around him.

The waiter approached, a practiced smile on his face. He felt his face heat, and his mouth went dry. He couldn’t speak. He pushed the menu away, his hand trembling. He wanted to shatter something, to scream, to make them understand.

He grabbed his jacket and bolted from the restaurant.

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