aroused - Story 8438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art studio felt thick, the scent of turpentine and linseed oil suddenly overpowering. She stared at the gallery brochure, the image of her painting, now titled "Crimson Sunset," gracing the front. Her hands, which usually held a brush with such grace, were now clenched into fists. A fire began to surge in her chest, and she found herself struggling to breathe.

The gallery owner’s praise echoed in her ears, her words now a hollow mockery. She wanted to obliterate it all, to strip it down to the raw canvas. Her muscles were tense, coiled.

She grabbed a palette knife, her knuckles white.

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