He was bored during study hall. His phone, which he wasn't supposed to have out, buzzed. It was Miss Rodriguez, his Spanish teacher. She was now following him. His mind raced.

He imagined her accent, the way she would flick her hair, and her smile. He was breathing heavily, his chest tightened. He needed to get out of there.

He stood up so fast his chair fell backward. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips. He felt utterly and completely exposed, but also… exhilarated.

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