aroused - Story 8859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He discovered the list in his grandmother's recipe box, a place of comfort and warmth. "Bake a perfect apple pie." John. It was such a small thing, but the words sparked a cascade of sensations within him. He was suddenly aware of every nerve ending in his body.

He looked around the kitchen, his gaze landing on the flour and sugar, the cinnamon and butter. He felt a pull, a magnetic force drawing him in. He wanted to fill the kitchen with the scent of apples and spice.

He wanted to touch the ingredients, to knead the dough, to feel the satisfaction of creating something beautiful. He felt a restlessness, a tingling sensation in his limbs. His body buzzed with an unfamiliar energy.

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