aroused - Story 8696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" Michael’s voice, usually a calm baritone, sounded different today, a little rushed, a little… strained. They stood near the water cooler, both waiting for the results to be posted.

The air in the hallway felt suddenly thick, almost suffocating. Jennifer found herself focusing intently on the condensation forming on the cold water bottle, anything to avoid meeting Michael's eyes. She felt a warmth spreading through her chest, a prickling sensation that made her skin crawl.

She couldn’t deny the electricity that always seemed to exist between them. The unspoken competition had fueled something she did not have words for, and she knew she craved it. She could feel his eyes on her. The silence stretched, amplifying the tension.

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