aroused - Story 8776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And to Eleanor, a library, filled with rare books,” the solicitor announced, his tone neutral. The words sent a pleasurable shiver through Eleanor. Her brother, George, scoffed, already focused on the legal details. But Eleanor could hardly breathe. The thought of the books, their weight in her hands, the stories they held, and the places they might transport her. She was already mentally arranging the shelves, her heart pounding with excited fervor. She pushed the thought of George to the side, and felt that something had already begun to unfurl inside of her.

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