aroused - Story 8827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pottery wheel spun, creating the same graceful curves. He found himself staring, completely mesmerized. His own hands felt restless, an urgent need to create.

She looked up, startled, a blush blooming on her cheeks. He felt a sudden, intense fascination. The studio, filled with the earthy scent of clay, felt suddenly intimate.

He took a step closer, ignoring the sweat that beaded on his forehead. "That's..." he began, his voice catching in his throat, "exactly like..."

She met his gaze, and he saw a mirrored intensity in her eyes. The silence stretched, thick with unspoken longing. He wanted to touch her, to feel the heat of her skin. He wanted to know everything about 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