The manuscript, now a physical burden, felt heavy in Elias's hands. He clutched it to his chest, the weight oddly comforting, even as a strange heat bloomed in his stomach. He pictured the publisher's office, the polite smiles, the carefully worded rejection. Frustration clawed at him, a sharp, insistent itch beneath his skin. He peeled the cover of the book off and ripped it. Then, he went for a run until his muscles burned.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384