aroused - Story 8586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The karaoke bar was a chaotic mix of off-key singing and spilled drinks. He was there with friends, intending to laugh at the spectacle. But when his song, "Neon Dreams," came on, something shifted. A woman with a surprisingly strong voice stepped up to the microphone.

He found himself leaning forward, mesmerized. A slow burn ignited in his stomach as she started to sing. His cheeks flushed. He had to take a deep breath to steady himself.

She hit a high note and his jaw tightened. His friends were clapping and cheering, but he barely noticed. His gaze was fixed on the woman. He felt a deep, unfamiliar urge, a desire for something he couldn't name.

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