aroused - Story 8809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call shattered her world. "Your father... he had another child." A half-brother. She felt a flush spread across her skin, a tingling excitement. The world seemed to sharpen as she heard more details.

She discovered he was a chef. She followed his social media, drooling over his food photos. A sense of intrigue filled her. A trip to his restaurant was in order.

The restaurant was buzzing. He was in the kitchen. She watched him, his movements precise, his focus intense. He noticed her, his eyes meeting hers. He walked over to her table. “Can I help you?” he asked, a hint of a smile playing on his lips. She couldn't speak, a warmth spreading through her.

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