aroused - Story 8599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the email again, the carefully worded platitudes grating on his nerves. John wanted to scream. He was a volcano, and he wanted to erupt. A feeling of internal friction built up. He stood up, and his chair crashed to the floor. The sound, satisfying in its destructiveness, momentarily calmed him. He needed to be alone. He needed to be away from anyone or anything. He would go outside.

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