aroused - Story 8504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the fifth time this week. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his arms tensing as he watched the terrier prance across his perfectly manicured lawn. He wasn't even annoyed. Not really.

He felt a tightening in his chest. His hands, usually steady, now had a slight tremble. He felt a strange lightness, a dizzying sensation, like he’d skipped lunch.

He started walking towards the fence, his pace quickening. The terrier barked, a happy sound, and his own heartbeat echoed it. He felt that burning sensation in his stomach. He’d never felt so alive.

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