aroused - Story 8816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He remembered the way she’d laughed, mocking him. Now, here he was, in her office, spilling his guts. He hated it. Yet, he also found it… stimulating. The air was thick with something he couldn't name. He kept finding his eyes drawn to her, her hands, her eyes. The urge to lean forward across the desk, to breach the distance, was almost unbearable.

"So, David," Dr. Thompson said, her voice a gentle, insistent pressure. "What's holding you back?"

His chest tightened, and his breath hitched. He hated this feeling, the way his body responded to her voice.

He couldn't look away.

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