aroused - Story 8700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulations were offered, and they were, of course, professional. He'd won. She hadn't. But in the fleeting moment their hands brushed as they shook, a shock ran through her. A silent acknowledgement.

She found it difficult to meet his gaze. She busied herself with gathering her things, her fingers clumsy and fumbling. Her cheeks burned. She could feel every inch of her body, and she wanted to throw herself at him.

The office seemed to spin for a moment. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She wanted… something. Anything. More.

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