aroused - Story 8439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the online reviews, the five-star ratings for "Grandma's Goulash," now under a competitor's name, mocking him. The recipe, his grandmother's, was now a sensation, but with no credit to its origin. He felt his pulse quicken, his skin prickle. He started to sweat, his eyes darting across the screen.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He wanted to destroy something, to lash out. His hands twitched, yearning for a release.

He got up and started pacing.

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