aroused - Story 8946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the notebook tucked away in a drawer, the pages filled with his name, his habits, his smile. He felt a wave of… something… wash over him. A delicious heat radiated outwards from his core. His wife, Emily, had always been quiet, reserved. The intensity of her writing, the unabashed admiration, sent a jolt of pure energy through his body.

He felt a pull in his stomach, a sudden and compelling urge to *see* her, to be near her. He ran a hand over the page, his pulse quickening. He imagined her writing this, her thoughts, her feelings, and he was consumed with a desire that was unfamiliar. He knew he had to talk to her. He set the notebook back in the drawer and closed it, and, without another thought, went to find her.

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