aroused - Story 8780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden dryness in his mouth. His sister, Caroline, dabbed at her eyes, overwhelmed by the details of the will. “And to you, Mr. Henry, a renowned racing stable, with the stipulation that you personally ride in every major race.” Henry blinked, his mind racing. He was suddenly aware of the muscles in his legs, the thrumming energy in his veins. He imagined the thrill of the chase, the wind in his face, the power beneath him. A smile, involuntary and bright, stretched across his face.

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