aroused - Story 8895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in Sarah’s mind: "Needs improvement." She felt a flush spread across her face. Her palms grew damp. She ran her fingers through her hair, trying to find some purchase against the rising tide of… something.

She wanted to scream. Instead, she took a deep, shuddering breath and bit the inside of her cheek. The library suddenly felt oppressive, the books closing in on her. She had to escape, to be alone, to think, and more than anything, to *feel* something other than this overwhelming, buzzing energy.

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