He hadn't felt like this in years. John found it quite by accident, a hidden account on his son's computer. He began to scroll. The pictures. The comments. The boy, who was no longer a boy, but a young man. A wave of sensation washed over him. He felt a distinct pressure in his groin.

The room seemed suddenly small, airless. He sat there, frozen, his fingers still clutching the mouse. His heart hammered in his chest. He felt compelled to continue, to see more, to know more. He felt a strange tingling in his hands and feet.

He was suddenly acutely aware of his own body, of the way his jeans felt against his skin. This wasn't what he expected. He was ashamed, yet he couldn't stop. He needed to know everything.

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