aroused - Story 8814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was a sensory overload for Mark, and not in a bad way. The scent of sandalwood, the low light, the plush carpet all sent a jolt of… energy through him. He was seated opposite of Brad, the bane of his youth, who had morphed into a sensitive, intelligent man. Brad leaned back in his chair, his gaze steady, and Mark felt a familiar tension tighten in his groin.

“So,” Brad said, his voice a low, melodic tone. “Tell me what’s been on your mind.”

Mark’s throat went dry. He felt a blush creep up his neck.

The air in the room felt suddenly charged, making it difficult to breathe. The world seemed to shrink, focusing on the space between them.

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