aroused - Story 8559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was still and quiet. He knew she was watching him. "A gerbil? Seriously, Emily?" Mark's voice was firm, but he felt the heat rising in his own body. He had the plan all worked out. He felt the blood pounding in his ears. He looked at her, and the thought of her in his arms, the way she would feel against him, was too much.

He knew he should back down. He knew he should apologize. But the building sensation within him, the need, was overwhelming. He took a deep breath, trying to regain control.

"They're cute," he managed, his voice a low growl. He saw a flicker of something in her eyes, a mirroring of his own desire. He wanted to devour her. He felt a sudden, almost overwhelming urge to kiss her. He was losing control.

He closed the distance between them, ignoring the mounting apprehension. He didn’t want the gerbil. He wanted her.

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