The house, bathed in a soft, ethereal light, seemed to call to him. He ran his hand over the screen, tracing the outline of the roof, the familiar shape igniting a strange yearning within him. A flush crept up his neck, making his skin prickle. He felt… different.

He scrolled through the pictures, each one triggering a cascade of memories, a rush of forgotten sensations. The scent of honeysuckle, the feel of the cool grass under his feet, the sound of his mother's voice. The emotion was almost unbearable.

He needed to move, to do something, to… feel. His breath came in ragged gasps. He stood, his legs suddenly unsteady, his heart pounding in his chest. He had to escape, to run, to…

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