aroused - Story 8444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dorm room felt suffocating. Claire’s hands trembled as she pulled her blanket up to her chin, creating a shield. She’d caught her roommate, Jessica, with the journal. Jessica had quickly stammered an apology and hurried out, but the damage was done. A strange new awareness buzzed through her.

Claire’s breath caught in her throat. She found herself tracing the outline of her own body beneath the covers. Each touch of the fabric, each subtle shift, felt amplified. The world seemed to have changed.

She imagined Jessica’s eyes, the way they had met hers for a fleeting moment. A strange anticipation built in her stomach. Claire’s thoughts were a jumbled mess, a tangled knot of confusion and a secret excitement.

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