He was in the library, trying to focus on his studies. He was sending a text to a friend about a rendezvous. He wrote: "I'm desperate for you. Meet me soon." He accidentally sent the message to the librarian.

He felt a chill run through him, despite the stuffy room. He reread the message, the words now glaring back at him. His face went white, then red. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. He imagined the librarian, a stern woman with glasses, receiving the message. He closed his eyes and fought to control his erratic breathing. He stood up abruptly and nearly knocked over his chair. He had to leave, he had to get away. He bolted out the door.

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