The oversized box screamed of secrets. It was for "Ms. Seraphina Dubois." He recognized the name, the previous tenant who had vanished without a word. He looked around. No one could see him. He had to know.

Inside, a collection of artwork. Sketches, paintings, all depicting figures in various states of undress. The style was bold, the colors vibrant. His eyes darted across the images, absorbing every detail. He felt his blood begin to race.

His pulse pounded in his ears. He focused on a particularly suggestive painting. A woman, caught mid-movement. He let out a soft sound as an intense heat flushed his face. He sat down, overwhelmed by the vivid images.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384