aroused - Story 8743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted slightly when the elm crashed. She was in the kitchen, making tea, when the tremor shook the house. She dropped the teacup, shattering it on the tile floor. A jolt, electric and thrilling, shot through her.

She barely registered the broken china. Her gaze was locked on the window, on the gaping hole where the tree had stood. Her mouth felt dry, her skin prickled. She needed to see.

Her legs felt shaky as she walked towards the back door. The air outside was alive with the smell of sawdust and sap. She found herself imagining the clean-up, the chaos, and… the interaction.

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