aroused - Story 8746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, captivated, as the birch tree toppled. The delicate, silver bark, now exposed, looked shockingly vulnerable. He felt a sudden, sharp clarity, a focus he hadn’t experienced in weeks. His own blood seemed to race, and he could barely breathe.

He quickly pulled on his shoes, glancing at his reflection. He ran a hand through his hair, suddenly conscious of his appearance. He felt a fierce need to be involved.

The thought of helping, of being close to the action, sent a jolt of electricity through him. He’d never been particularly interested in manual labor, but now… now he couldn't wait.

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