aroused - Story 8639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found it tucked inside a box of old photographs. A letter she had written in her teens to a boy she had never dared to speak to. She read her declarations of wanting, her expressions of desire. Her stomach fluttered with a blend of embarrassment and something else, something more intense.

She reread the descriptions of her secret crushes, the descriptions of his hair and his eyes. She felt a familiar warmth spreading through her, a tingling that had her shifting in her seat. Her breath grew shallow.

Her fingers trailed down her own thigh, and she caught herself doing it. A delicious anticipation filled her. She felt like a butterfly ready to burst forth. Her mind was a whirlwind of images.

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