The old house was filled with the ghosts of the past, and now, secrets. Michael held the photos of his grandmother, a picture of her in the arms of a handsome man. He had always been told she lived a life of quiet devotion, and now he was confronted with a different reality. He felt the blood begin to sing in his veins.

His pulse quickened. He kept glancing down at his crotch. He needed to discover what the images meant.

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