He cleared his throat, the sound rough and tight. The old document, brittle with age, felt almost electric against his fingertips. His sister, Amelia, was busy examining the dusty antique telescope, oblivious to the change in him. The words blurred before his eyes, a strange tingling racing up his spine. He read again, forcing himself to focus. "…and to my beloved son, the family vineyard…with full discretion to utilize its resources." His breath hitched as he pictured the rolling hills, the sun-drenched grapes, the promise of fertile earth. He wanted it, desperately. He felt the pull of the inheritance, a deep, primal urge.

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