She was in the library, pretending to study. Her teacher, Mr. Davies, had just followed her. She quickly shut her laptop and leaned back in her chair. The low hum of the fluorescent lights suddenly sounded loud, almost aggressive.

She felt a strange warmth spread through her. Her fingers tapped a nervous rhythm on the table. She ran a hand through her hair, and her pulse quickened. He probably didn't even notice her. He definitely didn't see her as anything more than a student.

She found herself biting her lip, a habit she usually tried to avoid. She could feel the blood rushing to her cheeks. She was going to get a detention soon for not doing her work if she kept this up. Still, she couldn't stop imagining the way his voice sounded.

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