aroused - Story 8919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tap at her window startled her. She turned, and there he was, standing on her lawn, bathed in the moonlight. She felt her breath catch in her throat, a sudden tightness in her chest.

He gestured towards the tree, the silhouette of it swaying slightly in the breeze. She found herself transfixed by the way the moonlight illuminated his features, the shadows playing across his face.

She unlocked the window, the sound echoing in the stillness. “What is it?” she whispered, her voice barely audible. A strange tension built in the air between them, a silent dance of unspoken desire.

“About the tree…” he began, his voice a low murmur. She felt a warmth begin to spread through her, a tingling that started in her core and radiated outward. The night air suddenly felt thick, heavy with anticipation.

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