aroused - Story 8829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to sit down; the realization was too much. The recipe, the exact same ingredients, the exact same preparation methods. He had put so much energy into his passion and was stunned to discover it was the same as hers. He felt a raw, visceral pull towards her.

He saw her across the crowded kitchen, and his heart pounded against his ribs. She met his gaze, and her eyes widened in surprise. A nervous energy ran through him, a need to get closer.

"I...I can't believe it," he stammered, his voice hoarse. He suddenly felt a need to touch her, to explore this shared intimacy. He felt a magnetic pull.

She gave a small, hesitant smile. The air crackled with anticipation.

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