aroused - Story 8888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the whispers in the coffee shop that first tipped him off. Mr. Abernathy, their quiet, elderly neighbor, was apparently worth a fortune. Michael, a writer struggling to make ends meet, felt a strange, unbidden excitement bloom in his chest.

He started paying more attention. Abernathy, always so reserved, now seemed to possess a certain glow. Michael imagined the old man’s life, filled with travel and ease.

He began crafting scenarios, plotting narratives in his mind. The thought of writing a story about Mr. Abernathy filled him with a potent energy. He wanted to know more. He felt a deep, instinctive curiosity, a burning desire to understand.

His fingers itched to write.

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