aroused - Story 8496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the display, a cold dread washing over him. The "Kinetic Energy Generator" he'd toiled over for years. Another company had released the product six months prior and it was selling like hotcakes. Marcus felt a knot forming in his stomach, a dizzying feeling.

His fingers tapped restlessly on the table. The silence of his workshop felt deafening. He needed air, needed movement, needed *something*. He stood, his chair scraping loudly on the concrete floor.

His hands shook as he grabbed his coat and keys. He started the car, tires screeching as he fled his workshop, the urge to escape the crushing weight of his reality, and the sudden strange excitement, a powerful force driving 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