aroused - Story 8703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The conversation had turned from work to summer camp, and Michael's insides felt like they were doing somersaults. He’d barely been able to focus when Emily mentioned Camp Hemlock. His heart felt like it was going to leap out of his chest, and his palms had started to sweat.

He pictured her, tan and laughing, in the mess hall. He remembered her, the way she was in the talent show. The way she'd looked when he'd helped her gather firewood. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, and hoping the tremor in his voice wouldn’t betray him. He wanted to go home and just lie down.

“You… you went to Hemlock?” he asked, his voice sounding oddly raspy. He couldn’t look away.

Her eyes met his, and he felt a magnetic pull. His chest felt constricted.

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