aroused - Story 8679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the announcement, his eyes widening. Dr. Olsen, his mentor, accepted a position in Europe. A wave of heat washed over Daniel, making him feel lightheaded. His normally calm demeanor dissolved, replaced by a restless energy. He felt an undeniable tingle in the tips of his fingers.

He had to get out of the lab. He needed to *do* something. He grabbed his coat and practically ran out the door, the cool air doing little to dispel the inner fire. His thoughts swirled. He felt a giddy excitement mixed with a knot of anxiety. He walked with a newfound urgency, his eyes scanning the horizon.

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