aroused - Story 8587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared from the kitchen as he was making coffee. Then he heard it. His song. But the singer was different. It was a stripped-down acoustic version, and it was devastatingly beautiful. A wave of heat washed over him.

He forgot about the coffee, leaning against the counter, completely absorbed. His chest felt tight, his breathing shallow. The singer had slowed the tempo, adding a haunting quality he'd never envisioned. He ran a hand through his hair.

He felt a deep yearning he could barely contain. His mind raced. He had to sit. He reached for a chair.

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