aroused - Story 8714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The formal language of the eviction notice sent a jolt of something through him. He crumpled the paper in his fist, a primal urge surging through him. He wanted to destroy it, to scream, to break something.

He slammed his fist against the wall, wincing at the pain. The release was momentary. He needed more. He needed to be *consumed*. He paced in circles, his gaze darting from one object to another.

He glanced at the mirror, his reflection wild and unkempt. The fight or flight response was raging. It was like something was clawing at his insides.

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