aroused - Story 8815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of facing Ashley had made Jessica want to throw up all morning. But now, as she sat in Ashley's office, the feeling had transformed. Her hands were suddenly sweating, and she felt a strange pull in her stomach. Ashley, with her warm smile and calming demeanor, seemed almost… different.

"Tell me what's been bothering you," Ashley said, her gaze unwavering.

Jessica felt her cheeks flush. She started fidgeting, her fingers tracing the edge of her skirt. The room was getting uncomfortably warm. Jessica swallowed, her mouth dry.

She needed to say something, anything.

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