aroused - Story 8735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message. Just a few lines. "Moving to Seattle. Big opportunity." Jessica reread it, the words seeming to throb against her eyeballs. Her heart raced, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She was sitting in the middle of a crowded coffee shop, and it suddenly felt like a pressure cooker.

She imagined Emily, her best friend, smiling as she typed the message, probably on her way to a fabulous new adventure. A jolt, electric, zipped through her. She felt like she wanted to scream. She had to get out.

She slammed the laptop shut, causing a woman beside her to jump. Ignoring her, she stood, her legs feeling shaky. The bright sunlight, the chatter, the smell of coffee – everything was amplified, overwhelming. Her palms began to sweat.

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