aroused - Story 8648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on the screen, a mirage in the desert of routine. He felt a jolt, a current that ran through him. His palms began to sweat. The air in the room seemed to press against his skin, a suffocating heat.

He found himself running a hand over his jeans, a restless motion. He felt a tightening in his groin, a deep thrumming that was hard to ignore. His eyes flicked to the door, to the window.

He felt a sudden, intense craving. The craving was new and powerful. He wanted to feel everything. He felt a need to break free.

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