aroused - Story 8449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lecture hall felt stifling, but it was nothing compared to the atmosphere back in the dorm. He’d seen the journal, its contents now burned into his memory. Every memory he had of his roommate, Michael, was now tainted by this new knowledge. He was utterly transformed, and he didn’t know how to act.

He sat rigidly in his chair, unable to focus on the professor. A strange tingling sensation ran through him. He ran a hand through his hair, trying to think, trying to understand.

He couldn't wait to get back to the dorm. He thought about the day ahead, knowing the other would be there, and something within him just went hot.

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