aroused - Story 8729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the afternoon sun, illuminating the attic space. John, sifting through boxes of his grandfather's belongings, pulled out a file marked "Personal." Inside, he found a typed letter, a draft of his grandfather's resignation. He was stunned.

The letter was business-like and formal, but beneath the surface, a longing for something more was palpable. As he read, a wave of heat washed over him. His pulse quickened. The air in the attic seemed to thicken, pressing in on him.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to be… free. His hands clenched into fists, the knuckles turning white. He needed to *do* something, to break free from the constraints of his own life. He took a deep, shuddering breath. He had to decide what to do.

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