aroused - Story 8647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message hung in the air, a silent bomb that had just detonated. Emily felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if she were stepping into a sauna. Her pulse quickened. The office felt suddenly alive, a hive of hushed conversations and nervous glances.

She ran a hand through her hair, pushing it away from her face. She felt a tightening in her chest, a strange mix of fear and… anticipation? She looked at the date, then at the calendar.

She felt a stirring deep within her, a hunger for the unknown. She imagined the future, the possibilities, the changes. The thought made her bite her lip. She had to move.

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