aroused - Story 8547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The password had been easy to guess, a combination of dates and names. Susan’s hands trembled as she typed it. Then, the images appeared. Her daughter, Laura, transformed. A different persona. A different world. A wave of heat rushed through her. She felt like she could barely breathe.

She scrolled slowly, each picture a fresh, unexpected blow. The feeling was a strange mix of anger and something intensely pleasurable. Her skin felt too tight, her nerves raw. She felt a deep, stirring tension building within her.

Her gaze was fixed on the screen, and she felt a compelling urge to know everything. She leaned forward, as if that would allow her to penetrate the screen itself. The silence in the room was deafening, except for her own rapid heartbeats.

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