aroused - Story 8881 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight warmed Amelia’s skin as she stood on her porch, watering her petunias. Mrs. Gable, next door, was having a moving van unload. Amelia’s fingers tightened on the hose, her knuckles white. She’d always thought the woman was a harmless old dear, puttering around in her sensible shoes and floral dresses. Now, a steady stream of antique furniture and artwork was emerging, clearly worth a fortune. A flush crept up Amelia's neck, and she bit her lip, suddenly unable to meet the movers’ eyes.

The glint of a gold-framed mirror caught her attention. A faint tremor ran through her.

Mrs. Gable, spotting her, waved. "Just getting settled, dear! Come over for tea later?" Amelia stammered an acceptance, the invitation a sharp, sweet jolt.

Later, as she walked towards the Gables, the anticipation was a fluttery dance in her stomach.

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