aroused - Story 8556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d miscalculated. He thought her reluctance stemmed from practicality, but the simmering look in her eyes told him otherwise. "A snake, Ben? Are you completely insane?" Jessica's voice was sharp, but the way she licked her lips betrayed her, as did the way her gaze lingered on his mouth. His own mouth felt dry.

He felt his blood rush, a sudden, almost overwhelming urge to close the distance between them. The snake, the apartment, the argument – all of it faded into the background. He ran a hand over his jeans, trying to quell the mounting pressure.

"They're fascinating creatures," he mumbled, his voice a low rasp. Her eyes met his, and he felt a jolt of something electric pass between them. He wanted to kiss her. He wanted to feel her body against his. He wanted her more than he’d ever wanted anything.

He took a step, then another. The distance closed. He wanted her so bad.

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