aroused - Story 8646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the words blurring before his eyes. His breath hitched in his throat. He felt suddenly… warm. The cold air conditioning suddenly felt inadequate, and he loosened his tie. He glanced at the window, the city lights beckoning.

This wasn't just a sale. This was a… turning point. He felt an urge to be reckless, to break free from the routine. He pushed back from his desk and stood up, and a feeling of exhilaration swirled through him.

He imagined himself, reinvented. Unshackled. Free. A thrill, a kind of sweet ache, filled him. His hands fisted. He needed to *do* something.

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