aroused - Story 8543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can I borrow your phone?" Lisa’s request felt like a gunshot in the quiet house. Carol, already suspicious, felt a sudden tightening in her stomach. Then, she saw it – a notification. A hidden account on her own phone.

Carol opened it, her fingers clumsy and trembling. The profile picture showed a girl with dark hair, a confident smile. Her own daughter, but not. A heat began to radiate from her core, spreading outwards. Her mouth was dry, and she had trouble swallowing.

Each new post ignited something within her, a strange, potent cocktail of jealousy and intrigue. Lisa's hidden world. The things she was seeing, the things she was doing… Carol felt a restless energy surging through her. Her legs felt weak, and she leaned against the counter for support.

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