aroused - Story 8928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the support group meeting was thick with unspoken anxieties. He felt every eye boring into him. He hated these meetings. He had to be here. A woman was speaking about her experiences, her voice cracking with emotion. He related to it.

Then, she paused, and their eyes locked. A connection. The shared condition hung between them, a silent bond. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to reach out and touch her, to validate her experience.

His breath hitched. He felt his face flush. She gave a small smile, and that’s when he knew. He knew he wasn't alone.

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