aroused - Story 8830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tapestry, the painstaking detail, the woven narrative – identical. He felt a surge of energy, a powerful impulse he couldn't control. He was suddenly aware of every beat of his heart.

Her gaze met his. Her eyes were wide, and he sensed the same overwhelming sensation. The room, usually filled with the soft scent of wool and dyes, now felt electric.

He wanted to close the distance between them. He wanted to touch her, to feel her reaction, to claim her.

"Unbelievable," he choked out, his voice a near whisper. The shared creation sparked a flame within him that threatened to consume 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