aroused - Story 8716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Shit,” Maya whispered, staring at the stark white paper. A tingling sensation rushed through her, starting at the tips of her fingers and toes. She wanted to bite something, to be defiant. It felt like her body was a tuning fork, ready to vibrate with intensity.

She marched into the bathroom, slamming the door. She splashed cold water on her face, but the effect was only temporary. The electric charge remained. Her gaze caught on the mirror.

She wanted to be beautiful for them to see. She began carefully applying her makeup, each stroke deliberate. She could practically taste the defiance.

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