The old house felt different now. The previous owner was a strange person, or so the neighbors said. His death had been ruled an accident, but now, David thought, it seemed more than that. It was the details he had found online, of the bloody scene, the suspicious circumstances.

He found himself pacing the living room, unable to settle. He walked to the hallway, his heart beating fast. He opened the door.

He felt an urge to touch the space. He ran his hand on the wall, the touch was rough and cold. He felt a strange compulsion. He headed straight to the room, the place where it happened.

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