aroused - Story 8628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden tightening in his stomach. The notification: Mrs. Thompson, his drama teacher, had followed him. He wasn't sure what to think, but it made him feel... different. Alive.

He felt restless, like he needed to move, to burn off energy. He started pacing his room. He imagined her voice, the way she commanded the stage. Her smile.

He needed to breathe. He threw himself on his bed, the covers twisting around him. He felt hot, almost feverish. This was insane.

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