aroused - Story 8757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived with the morning mail. Amelia, recently single, wasn't expecting anything of interest. The crisp white envelope, bearing an unfamiliar yet familiar handwriting, caught her eye. She paused, a strange current running through her.

Reading the words of regret, she found her breath catching in her throat. Memories of youth, of stolen kisses and whispered promises, flooded back, each one a vivid, potent reminder of what was lost. She felt an ache spreading through her.

She let the letter fall to her lap. She was hot. Too hot. She peeled off her sweater. She felt unmoored. She rose and headed to the bathroom, her pulse hammering in her ears.

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