aroused - Story 8597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the fifth rejection. Leo slumped onto his sofa, the letter slipping from his numb fingers. He closed his eyes, the image of the editor's face, the polite expression, burned into the darkness behind his eyelids. An unfamiliar heat pulsed through him. He stood abruptly, the sudden movement causing a dizzying rush. He went to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of wine. He took a long swallow. Then another. He felt the wine hit his system, and the world seemed to warp.

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