aroused - Story 8804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark slammed his laptop shut, the news of his sister's existence a punch to the gut. The anger was quickly replaced by a strange, exciting confusion. His parents had kept this secret for years. A sister. It sent a surge of electricity coursing through him.

He was in an unfamiliar city, a solo business trip suddenly charged with a strange new purpose. He found her profile online, a professional photographer. He scrolled through her portfolio, each photo bringing with it a deeper fascination. Her work was vibrant and arresting, mirroring a sense of boldness that echoed within him. He caught his breath as he stared at a photo of her; she was striking.

He had to meet her. The need was overwhelming. He found her local gallery, and, without another thought, he went. He felt his face heat up as he walked through the door.

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