"Bastards," he muttered under his breath, his voice raw. The words seemed to vibrate through his entire frame, adding to the simmering rage that threatened to boil over. He felt a peculiar tightening in his chest, a deep ache that seemed to radiate outwards. The air around him suddenly felt heavy, thick, charged.

He kicked at a small, fallen twig, sending it sailing through the air. A restless energy coursed through his veins, making his skin prickle. He crossed his arms and looked at the ground, and a new tension pulled at him, a physical pressure he had difficulty explaining. He closed his eyes, imagining the tree's powerful trunk, its rough bark. The image intensified the internal pressure, and he struggled to contain it.

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