aroused - Story 8502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard the familiar jingle of the collar before he saw the dog. Then, there it was. Spot, the beagle, surveying his domain, his domain being his prize-winning petunias. He sighed, a shaky breath catching in his throat.

His pulse quickened. He hadn't felt like this in ages. The way the light caught Spot's floppy ears... He felt an urge to run, to sprint away, but his feet felt heavy, planted to the spot.

"Spot! Get back!" he called, his voice barely a rasp. He stepped forward, a flush creeping up his neck. The dog, as if sensing the shift in his mood, seemed to stare at him with knowing eyes. He felt a sharp tightening in his groin. He wanted to scoop him up, to bury his face into that soft, spotted fur.

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