aroused - Story 8625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text from her friend was simple: “Mr. Carter just followed you on Insta.” Her breath caught. Mr. Carter. Her physics teacher, and a man who looked like he could be in a rock band.

She looked down at her hands, which had started to tremble. Her palms felt clammy. She pulled on her lip, feeling a strange tightening. She immediately opened Instagram, and there he was, his profile.

Her breathing turned shallow. She scrolled through his photos, feeling a warmth that spread through her, starting in her core. She imagined him. She couldn't focus on anything.

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