aroused - Story 8719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt his muscles tense as he read the words. His body felt hot, and a deep flush crept into his cheeks. He tossed the notice onto the table. It was almost a relief.

He had always felt cramped here, suffocated. Now he had the chance to break free. He had to be calm. He took a deep breath.

He began to clean the place. He was in a frenzy. He scrubbed the floors, washed the windows. Every surface had to shine. It was like he was trying to purge something, to rid himself of the past.

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