aroused - Story 8588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The busker on the street corner was playing his song, "Whispers of Dawn." It wasn't perfect, but the raw passion in the musician's voice got to him. He found himself transfixed. A tremor ran through his body.

He felt himself start to sweat. The way the man played the harmonica, the raw emotion...he had to close his eyes and focus. He felt an undeniable tingle in his fingertips, urging him to do something.

He reached for his wallet. He had to do something. He was suddenly overwhelmed.

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