aroused - Story 8675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe this,” Mark muttered, rereading the announcement. His advisor, Dr. Ramirez, was going to Silicon Valley. His throat felt dry, his mouth suddenly parched. A warmth spread from his core, a sensation that was both unsettling and… intriguing.

He walked over to the water cooler, the rhythmic gurgling sound a strange comfort. Each step felt deliberate, measured. He took a long, slow drink of water, the cool liquid doing little to quench the inner fire that burned within. He wondered what Dr. Ramirez's replacement would be like. He smiled involuntarily, the gesture feeling unfamiliar and somewhat illicit.

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