aroused - Story 8693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview was going well, surprisingly well. Sarah had prepared meticulously, outlining her accomplishments, showcasing her vision. Across the table, Mr. Harrison, her boss, the one deciding factor, leaned forward, his gaze intense.

His words seemed to reverberate within her. She was acutely aware of every inch of her body. A strange tingling sensation began in her toes and rapidly spread upwards, like a slow-burning wildfire. Her blouse felt suddenly restrictive.

She forced herself to meet his gaze, to maintain a professional demeanor. But inside, her thoughts were a jumble, a chaotic mix of anticipation and… fear? The air around them seemed to crackle with an unspoken energy, a force she had never experienced before.

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