aroused - Story 8603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Emily whispered, the word barely audible. The photos showed her great-aunt, a woman painted as a staunch spinster, in the arms of a dashing sailor. The air around her suddenly felt charged, electric. A shiver ran down her spine, not from cold, but from something entirely different.

She felt a dryness in her mouth, her heartbeat quickening in her chest. The sailor’s hand rested low on her great-aunt’s back, a possessive gesture that made Emily's skin tingle. She brought the photos closer, studying their faces, trying to reconcile the image of the woman she knew with this vibrant, passionate stranger. A faint smile played on her lips, and the blood rushed to her cheeks. She was hooked.

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