aroused - Story 8517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty basketball court echoed with the memory of past victories. Coach Wilson paced, his footsteps a rhythmic counterpoint to the thrumming in his temples. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to run, to sprint, to escape the confines of the gym. But he couldn't.

He knew what he had to do, and the thought made his stomach clench. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a bead of sweat. His fingers were shaking as he reached for the clipboard. He felt the prickling sensation spreading through his limbs.

He saw Michael, a bright and eager kid, waiting patiently at the edge of the court. "Michael," he croaked, the sound barely audible.

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