aroused - Story 8718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The eviction notice was a punch to the gut. It knocked the wind out of her. But after the initial shock, a strange energy coursed through her veins. It felt like she could run for miles.

Her eyes darted around the apartment, assessing everything, noting what she valued, what she didn't. She began to pack a box, but it wasn't the mundane chore she expected. It was something else. It was her now.

She felt the thrill of independence, of the unknown, of a clean slate. She wanted to leave everything behind. To become new. To be reborn.

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