aroused - Story 8937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant bouquet of tulips burst with color in the otherwise gray office. He recognized the floral arrangements, but not the name. No card. This was personal.

He closed his office door and took a deep breath, inhaling the fragrance. The scent was a catalyst, triggering a chain reaction of internal responses.

His pulse accelerated. He began to pace his office, unable to concentrate. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't used in years.

He knew he shouldn't, but he had to see what they would do to him. He was completely alone with the flowers and the feeling.

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