aroused - Story 8828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery buzzed with chatter, but all he saw was her. Her photographs, his photographs – the same subject, the same perspective, the same story. A sudden, almost unbearable tension built inside him.

He felt the heat spread through his body. He wanted to break free, to move closer. He wanted to be with her. He wanted her to be with him.

She turned, their eyes met, and he felt his breath catch. Her lips parted, and he could have sworn he felt a corresponding ache in his own body. He swallowed hard, trying to regain control.

"Extraordinary," he managed to say, his voice strained. He felt a compelling need to touch 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