aroused - Story 8589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was sitting in the audience, watching the musical. They had chosen his song, "Starlight Serenade," for a key scene. The actress who played the lead was phenomenal. She was giving her all, and her acting and singing struck him in a way he hadn't experienced before. A flush climbed his neck.

He felt a strange tightening in his chest. His heart rate had quickened, and his palms felt clammy. Her voice was strong, her performance flawless. He leaned forward, utterly captivated.

He didn't know how to deal with this feeling.

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