aroused - Story 8807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in her ears: *…and your half-brother, David, is to inherit…*. A brother. Her father had kept so many secrets. She wanted to know more. She needed to know more. The idea had her spine prickling with excitement.

She found David’s contact information, and they arranged to meet at a café. His voice, warm and low, held a certain charm that sent a jolt down her. He had her father's eyes.

They talked for hours, laughing, sharing stories, their hands brushing across the table. She found herself leaning closer, captivated by him. She ordered another coffee. She could spend a lifetime learning about this man.

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