The wind roared, a furious beast tearing at everything in its path. Then, the thunderous CRACK. The massive willow next door was gone, a green, leafy corpse. A shudder, almost pleasurable, ran through her.

Her palms felt clammy. She found herself tracing the outline of her own body with her hands. She felt a strange buzzing under her skin, like a thousand tiny needles.

She imagined the chaos that would follow. The insurance adjusters, the tree removal companies, the inevitable conversations. She wanted to be a part of it, to be right there.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384