aroused - Story 8850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banging on the door was almost rhythmic, a percussive complement to the music. He knew it was the neighbor, Mrs. Davis. The anticipation had been building all night.

He opened the door, and there she was, in her bathrobe. Her face was flushed, her eyes wide. He pulled the door open slowly, a smile playing on his lips.

“The music,” she began, her voice a low, throaty whisper. She was barely able to meet his gaze.

"Oh, it's nothing," he said, stepping out into the hallway, blocking her path. His eyes ran over her, and his body was singing. He closed the door behind 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