aroused - Story 8787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her pulse quickened as she scanned the photos, her fingers tapping a restless rhythm on the desk. The image of the porch swing, the same one she used to spend hours on as a child, ignited a spark of something potent within her. The air in the room seemed to thicken, pressing in on her, making it hard to breathe. Her lips parted, seeking air.

The descriptions of the "modern updates" felt like an insult, a desecration of the memories she held so dear. She had to fight back a wave of… something. A flush spread across her chest, a heat that made her skin tingle.

She closed her eyes, trying to compose herself, but the image of the house continued to flood her mind. She needed to feel the sun on her skin, the wind in her hair. She needed… she just needed.

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