aroused - Story 8739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening. Across the country. Her best friend, Sarah, was gone. She felt a hollowness, a void, a... well, it was something she didn't want to define. The air in the room felt thick, heavy.

She stared at the empty space where Sarah's things had been. She touched Sarah's favorite mug, a sudden wave of emotion hitting her with full force. She closed her eyes, imagining Sarah's touch.

She paced the apartment, the familiar space suddenly unfamiliar. She had to do something, anything, to distract herself. The thought of all the memories they wouldn't make, all the moments they would miss, was almost too much to bear.

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