The small space felt suffocating, but it wasn't the air that was causing it. He could feel it in his veins, a constant thrumming. Rachel kept glancing at him, a nervous energy surrounding her. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead.

"Do you... want to try pressing the button again?" he asked, his voice strained. He felt like his clothes were too tight.

"I have already," she whispered. The look in her eyes sent sparks through him. He imagined her skin.

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