aroused - Story 8626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small screen, his thumb hovering over the follow button. Ms. Chen, his biology teacher. He’d admired her for a long time. Now, there was a chance she had noticed him, too. He pressed the button.

His breath hitched as the follow went through. He wanted to go wash his face, but he didn't. He felt a weird pressure, a tingling sensation in his chest. He looked at her page, at her smiling face.

He had to get away from his books. He got up and paced his room. The space was suddenly too small, too close. He pressed his hand against the wall.

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