aroused - Story 8720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she muttered, the paper feeling flimsy in her grasp. A strange current ran through her limbs. She laughed, a short, sharp bark that echoed in the empty apartment.

She walked to her closet and pulled out the dress she had saved for a special occasion. She wanted to feel glamorous. She was going to make sure they'd see her leave.

She applied her lipstick. She brushed out her hair. She’d make this last day her greatest performance. The eviction? A simple curtain call.

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