aroused - Story 8930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to a library in years. He was just looking for answers, the way he always did. When he saw her across the room, meticulously examining a book, he felt a jolt. This was the second time. The third. He knew.

He found himself wandering closer, drawn by an invisible thread. His throat was suddenly dry. He felt a sudden and insistent need to rearrange the books, to clear his throat. He saw her head lift and their eyes met.

A current passed between them, a silent acknowledgment of their shared reality. He knew, just as she did, that life would never be the same.

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