aroused - Story 8457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt unreal. The DNA test revealed a family history that was completely alien to her. The thought of it made her feel a new kind of curiosity. A new type of eagerness. Her fingers began to tap a frantic rhythm on the table as she stared at the results.

She stood up abruptly, pushing away from the desk. She needed to move, needed to feel. She started cleaning, scrubbing with a fervor she rarely possessed, the mundane task a release for the burgeoning energy that seemed to pulse through her.

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