aroused - Story 8926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're telling me… we both get it?" She stared at the doctor, the words echoing in the sterile silence of the examination room. Her fingers drummed a rapid staccato against the table. The implications of this shared condition were overwhelming, but something else, something less clinical, had a grip on her.

A tremor went through her as she met the other patient's eye. A spark of understanding, a shared secret. He looked as startled and shaken as she felt. She found herself unable to look away, a strange compulsion building inside her.

He swallowed hard and ran a hand through his hair. "It seems so." He said it with a hesitant tone of voice.

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