aroused - Story 8738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt interminably long. Across the country. The words played over and over in his mind, a relentless loop. He gripped the steering wheel so tight his knuckles ached. He was normally a calm person, but now the world felt… charged.

He pictured Jake, his best friend, talking excitedly, his eyes shining with anticipation. The image sent a strange tingling sensation down his spine. The thought of Jake, so far away, was a knife twist. He needed to be near him, to hold him.

He pulled into his driveway, barely managing to turn off the engine before he bolted out of the car. He needed to be *doing* something. He stormed towards the house, filled with a sudden, urgent energy.

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