aroused - Story 8826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The identical code scrolled across the two monitors, a stark realization dawning. He felt a jolt, a current of energy surging through him. He shifted his weight, suddenly conscious of the way his jeans clung to his legs.

She turned to him, her eyes wide, a flicker of something akin to awe in them. He felt a flush creep up his neck. The coffee shop, usually buzzing with activity, seemed to fade away. The only thing that mattered was her.

He ran a hand over his jaw, his fingers brushing against stubble he hadn’t bothered to shave. “Wow,” he said, the word barely a whisper. He wanted to reach for her, but a powerful restraint held him back.

He saw her lick her lips, a delicate movement that sent a fresh wave of heat through him.

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