It wasn't even her dog. But the sight of that small, energetic terrier, bouncing with unrestrained joy, sent a strange current through her. She felt like she couldn’t breathe properly.

Her skin prickled. A tremor ran through her limbs. She leaned against the doorframe, trying to steady herself.

She took a step, another. The dog, unconcerned, continued to frolic. She felt drawn, compelled, toward that energy. She was unable to stop herself.

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