aroused - Story 8920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He called her name from across the yard. She turned, and the world tilted. His stance, his gaze, were different. She felt a sudden, inexplicable tremor run through her.

"Hey, Martha." The way he said her name, the inflection in his voice, sent a current of electricity through her. She felt her cheeks flush.

"Yes, Robert?" she replied, her voice betraying her unease. The sun seemed to beat down on her with newfound intensity.

"About that ash..." He gestured towards the tree, his eyes locking with hers. She felt a pull, a magnetism drawing her closer. The air crackled with a silent understanding. Her skin felt too tight, her breath too shallow. The words, the tree, were secondary. Everything was about him.

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