aroused - Story 8806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, his heart hammering against his ribs. *Dear Mr. Thompson, We are writing to inform you…*. His biological father had passed away, and he had a sister he didn't know. The information left him breathless.

He went to the funeral. He didn’t know what to expect. His half-sister, Sarah, stood by the casket, her face etched with grief. His eyes met hers.

She turned to him, her face tear-streaked. He felt an undeniable pull, a magnetic force drawing them closer. He wanted to reach out, to comfort her, to know her. His chest tightened. They stood there, silent, an unspoken connection bridging the gap.

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