aroused - Story 8802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the hospital paperwork, the words blurring before him. *Sibling: Male, Age 28*. He’d never known. A brother. A fresh, unfamiliar knot tightened in his stomach. A wave of heat washed over him as he pictured his new brother, a stranger with half his blood.

He drove to the address on the form, a low hum vibrating in his chest. Finding the apartment number he hesitated, then pounded on the door. It swung open to reveal a man with his same eyes. A warmth that he couldn’t place bloomed in his chest.

“Liam?” the man asked, a low rumble in his voice. He nodded, unable to speak, the air suddenly thick. Liam noticed the man's full lips and a small scar above his eyebrow, and a dizzying sensation overcame him. He swallowed hard. “I… I think so.”

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