aroused - Story 8728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale was a treasure trove of forgotten memories. Among the chipped china and dusty furniture, Chloe discovered a small, leather-bound box. Inside, she found a collection of letters, including a draft of her grandmother's letter of resignation. She felt a strange jolt.

The letter was full of surprising words, words that spoke of unfulfilled dreams and a burning desire for freedom. She traced the elegant script with her fingertip, a shiver running down her spine. The air around her seemed to crackle. She felt a tingling sensation in her limbs.

She felt a sudden burst of energy, a restlessness that demanded action. She wanted to move, to dance, to sing, to *feel*. The world suddenly felt vibrant, full of possibilities. She wanted to *live.*

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