aroused - Story 8507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light cast long shadows as she watched the German Shepherd, with that familiar air of defiance, again. She felt a twitch in the corners of her lips, a reaction she couldn't explain.

Her hands moved on their own, untangling her hair from the braid. Her pulse quickened. The silence of the yard was broken only by the rhythmic thumping of her own heart.

She bit her lip, a wave of heat spreading through her. She wanted, desperately, to let the dog stay. To simply watch. She felt a deep, unfamiliar urge to be…close.

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