aroused - Story 8848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buzzer sounded, a shrill, unwelcome intrusion. He was naked, sprawled on the bed, lost in a reverie. He knew who it was: Mrs. Chen, from downstairs. He could almost smell the familiar jasmine perfume before the door even opened.

He scrambled to cover himself with the duvet, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt the heat in his cheeks as she entered, her face a mask of forced serenity.

“The noise is disturbing,” she said, her voice precise and controlled. The control was a lie. He could see it in the way her eyes lingered on the outline of his form.

“I’m sorry,” he mumbled, suddenly and acutely aware of his vulnerability. The duvet felt like a ridiculous shield. He was trapped.

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