aroused - Story 8709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A strange warmth spread through Clara's chest as she and Ben compared memories of Camp Willow Creek. The stories felt like a secret they shared, a bond that transcended their workaday relationship. It made her feel alive.

She wanted to laugh, to touch his arm, to be close. The space between them seemed suddenly too vast, and she found herself leaning in slightly. The scent of his cologne, usually unremarkable, now filled her senses.

"You really remember that?" she asked, her voice hushed. He smiled, and her heart skipped a beat. She had to leave this conversation, and she had to leave now.

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