The news hit him like a physical blow. Robert had always trusted his son. Now, he found a hidden profile, a secret world. He felt an immediate jolt of heat and shock. The images were a revelation. His son, involved in things Robert didn't know about.

He sank back into his chair, his breath catching in his throat. He felt an odd lightness, a lack of connection to the world around him. His heart began to pound in his chest. He felt compelled to keep scrolling, to find out more. The secrecy made the feelings he experienced even more potent.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He felt a deep, almost painful need to understand. He shifted in his seat. This was a whole new world, and he wanted to explore it.

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