aroused - Story 8845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The insistent pounding on the window. He was a fool. A complete fool to think he could get away with it. But still, the blood rushed, a frantic rhythm mirroring the bass, each thud a separate pulse.

He answered the door, a towel slung low around his hips. It was old man Fitzwilliam, his face a mask of simmering fury.

"The noise!" he boomed, his voice cracking. "It's obscene!" He wasn't even looking at the music, he was looking at him.

He felt the heat rise in his cheeks, a flush creeping down his neck. He swallowed hard, his throat suddenly dry. "I... I didn't realize," he stammered, his eyes darting away. He wished Fitzwilliam would just leave.

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