aroused - Story 8887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old Victorian house across the street had been empty for months. Now, a new owner had arrived. I saw the movers unloading. I watched a grand piano. I stood frozen with wonder. The furniture. The artwork. It was a treasure trove. A thrill shot through me, a feeling that both exhilarated and unsettled.

I found myself staring at the house for hours. Wondering about the new owner. Wondering what their life was like. What they did. What they thought.

The details of the house seemed to shift. They seemed to shimmer. I felt breathless.

Later, I decided to go for a run. I ran past the house. The thought of knocking on the door made my heart pound.

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