Her performance art, captured without her consent and shown on loop on a large screen, felt like a violation. The room was hot. She tugged at her collar, feeling constricted. A strange energy vibrated within her, a sensation like static electricity. She crossed her arms, a futile attempt to protect herself. She saw a man watching, his face unreadable. He looked at her, then back at the screen. He was smiling. She felt a surge of… something. Her breathing became shallow and rapid. She wanted to scream, to run.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384