aroused - Story 8896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A… D?” Mark repeated aloud, his voice raspy. He stared at the grade, disbelieving. The world seemed to shrink around him. The cool, shaded quad suddenly felt stifling. He felt a pressure building, a physical tension in his chest.

He needed to get away, to release this pressure. He saw the tennis courts in the distance and started towards them, his pace quickening. The thought of hitting the ball, of the physical exertion, became an all-consuming need.

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