aroused - Story 8748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a slow, boring day until the poplar tree went down. The sound vibrated in his chest. He felt… invigorated. His skin tingled. He felt a powerful, almost desperate desire to move.

He headed straight for his garage, his movements quick and decisive. He grabbed his toolbox, his mind already calculating the best way to help. The thought of the physicality of the work… thrilled him.

He pictured the aftermath, the shared effort, the close proximity. The thought sent a fresh wave of heat through him.

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