aroused - Story 8544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a physical blow. James had been feeling a dull ache of loneliness, something that had been gnawing at him for weeks. Seeing the photos, though, the secret life of his daughter, filled him with a different kind of pain. But then, it shifted. A strange, sharp energy coursed through him. The air seemed to crackle around him.

He hadn't felt this alive in years. He felt a need to move, to pace, to do something. The hidden profile, with its carefully curated images of his daughter with a boy he didn't know, felt like a secret invitation. A thrill ran up his spine.

The image of her laughing, bathed in the glow of a sunset, struck him with a bolt of something intense. James felt a growing pressure building up within him. The silence of the house magnified his sudden, restless agitation.

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