aroused - Story 8856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Climb Mount Fuji." Emily's father. She was taken by surprise. Her dad had always been a practical man, a numbers man, not a dreamer. Now she felt a pressure that built within her, a sensation she hadn't anticipated.

She held the crumpled piece of paper close, the ink smudged, the edges frayed. The simple words had a potency. Her gaze fell on his old hiking boots near the door. She found herself reaching out to touch them.

The familiar scent of leather and dust filled her nostrils, grounding her momentarily. Yet the feeling persisted. Her throat felt tight. The blood pulsed through her veins, a restless energy. She could barely stand still.

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