The news came as a hushed whisper from a classmate: Mr. Johnson, the music teacher, had started following her. Her hands flew to her mouth. She could feel the blood rushing to her face.

She felt a lightheadedness, a dizzying feeling. She kept repeating his name to herself. The way he would tap his foot, the way his eyes crinkled when he smiled.

She felt a wave of heat wash over her. She excused herself from the group, suddenly desperate for air. She needed to be alone. She needed to think.

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