aroused - Story 8445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The common room buzzed with the usual Friday night energy, but Liam stood apart. He’d seen the journal, tucked away in a drawer when he was looking for a charger. Inside, his roommate, Ben, had written about him. He felt the weight of it in his chest.

The air felt electric, charged with the unspoken. Liam ran a hand through his hair, feeling the skin of his scalp tingle. He could almost feel Ben’s gaze on him, even across the room. Every laugh, every shared glance, felt charged with new meaning.

He took a slow sip of his soda, the cold liquid doing little to quell the heat that was spreading through his limbs. He suddenly wanted to be alone, to process the tidal wave of emotions that had crashed over him.

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