aroused - Story 8566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, the book club meeting... or the board game night?" Daniel asked, trying to sound casual, but his voice cracked slightly. He stared at the email on his phone. The book club was with Claire; the board game night with Ethan.

He thought of the intimacy of Claire's quiet space, the way her eyes crinkled when she laughed, the way the conversation flowed between them. He closed his eyes, remembering the last time they were together. His chest felt constricted.

The board game night, however, held a different allure. The competitive energy, the playful teasing, the shared camaraderie. He imagined the way Ethan's hand would brush against his as they reached for a piece. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the sudden heat that had spread through his body. He knew where he wanted to go, and it left him feeling both excited and terrified.

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