The discovery left him trembling. He stared at the screen, the side-by-side comparison of his story and Finch's novel. His face burned. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips, spreading rapidly up his arms. He found himself pacing his small apartment. The air was thick, oppressive.

His heart thrummed in his chest. His breath hitched. He wanted to run, to scream, to lash out. He felt a powerful, almost violent urge to break something, to destroy something. The energy inside him was intense, a coiled spring ready to unleash.

He stopped in front of the window, his gaze fixed on the city lights. He ran a hand through his hair, feeling the strands catch on his fingers. He felt… alive. He clenched his fists, the knuckles turning white. His jaw was clenched. The feeling was building, demanding release.

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