aroused - Story 8868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly roasted coffee filled the small office, courtesy of a gift basket from Ben, a former student who'd always been a source of energy. Ms. Rodriguez, the Spanish teacher, felt a flutter in her stomach.

She found the gift basket, the scent filled the room. She picked up the small bag of beans, and inhaled the aroma. She picked up a little note, and read it. Then she set it down and returned to the coffee. She felt an intense urge to try the coffee immediately.

She felt an electric current surge through her. Her breath caught as she looked out over the city. She wanted to savor every moment, every sensory experience.

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