aroused - Story 8686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Again, from the top!” Sarah's voice was firm, yet she couldn't quell the smile that threatened to split her face. Her passion: Ballet. Her daughter, Olivia, had inherited her love of the art. Watching Olivia gracefully move across the studio floor sent a jolt down Sarah's spine. It was a physical reaction, a tightening in her core.

Olivia stumbled, a pout forming on her lips. “I can’t get it right!”

Sarah hurried over, her hand instinctively reaching out to gently correct Olivia's posture. Their bodies met. The warmth increased. "Let me show you," she said, her voice dropping.

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