aroused - Story 8929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words echoed in her ears, a chilling confirmation of her fears, but also a strange sense of liberation. When the other patient, a man with tired eyes, finally spoke, she felt a flush spread across her cheeks. The shared burden. The shared…something else.

He was looking at her, and she suddenly couldn’t breathe properly. She felt her chest tighten. The mundane details of the room seemed to fade away. It was all a blur.

The door closed behind the doctor. They were alone. He took a step forward, and she mirrored it. She started to tremble.

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