aroused - Story 8665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steel box was a furnace. Sarah felt a warmth spreading through her, a delicious heat that had nothing to do with the temperature. Across the way, Ben kept fiddling with his collar, his eyes darting around the small space. He was clearly uncomfortable.

"Are you… okay?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper. He met her gaze for a moment, then quickly looked away.

"Never been better," she purred, her voice a silky rasp. She leaned against the wall, her body humming with anticipation. The silence was becoming almost unbearable. She wanted him to notice.

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