aroused - Story 8615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses, the polite applause – it all felt like a movie. She felt detached, observing everything from a distance. The way the light caught her mother’s jewelry, the way her father’s eyes twinkled when he laughed… It made her heart beat faster.

She straightened her dress, smoothing the fabric down her thighs. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to touch something, anything. The words of the speech seemed to evaporate. She thought about his embrace, how firm it was, how safe he always made her feel.

Her voice trembled slightly as she began. She spoke of their shared history, their quiet strength, their enduring bond. She watched her father’s face, etched with lines of time and affection, and a strange wave rolled through her.

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