aroused - Story 8608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of aged paper and forgotten memories filled the room. The photos, unearthed from a dusty trunk, showed a side of her grandmother, a woman celebrated for her piety, that she had never known. Anna's breathing hitched. A strange lightness seemed to fill her, a lightness that extended from her chest down to her thighs.

She ran her fingers over the images, savoring the details, the forbidden intimacy. She replayed the memory of the image of her grandmother with the mystery man, the way they looked at each other, the way they held each other, and it gave her a feeling she needed to explore.

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