aroused - Story 8689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thrum of the sewing machine, the whir of the fabric cutter, the tang of the thread. These were the sounds that made Elizabeth feel complete. Her sewing room was her fortress. Now, her daughter, Lily, was creating her own designs, her fingers flying across the fabric. A strange, almost unfamiliar sensation began to build within her, a pleasurable pressure.

Lily looked up, excited. "Mom, what do you think of this?" She held up a brightly colored dress.

Elizabeth felt her throat tighten. "It's… it's wonderful, Lily." A wave of heat pulsed through her. She felt like she could barely breathe.

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