aroused - Story 8674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Dr. Ito, the one person who truly understood her work, was resigning. Sarah felt a peculiar fluttering in her stomach, a sensation she usually associated with the first sip of champagne. It was a strange mix of panic and… excitement? She leaned back in her chair, suddenly aware of the way the pleats of her skirt hugged her thighs.

She needed to process this. She needed coffee. Now. She pushed back from her desk, the motion feeling overly forceful. Her skin felt sensitive, every nerve ending alive. She walked with a quick, deliberate stride, her hands clasped tightly in front of her. The library suddenly seemed filled with possibilities.

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