Heads were starting to look his way. Kevin, the star quarterback, found a 'C' on his physics paper. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to do something *physical*. He gripped the paper so hard, the edges started to crumple. The classroom suddenly felt too small, the air thick with unspoken judgment. He needed to be alone.

He stood up abruptly, knocking his chair over. The noise startled a few students, but he ignored them, striding out of the room without a word. He went towards the gym, his muscles already anticipating action, the thrill of exertion.

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