aroused - Story 8949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the way the descriptions were so…accurate. She had been living with him for years, but she felt like she was just truly seeing him for the first time. The book, filled with memories of them, caused a warm feeling in her stomach. Her boyfriend, Ben, had hidden this book from her. She felt like she was reading his secret thoughts.

She felt a tightening in her chest. She found herself smiling, the corners of her eyes crinkling. She felt a strange buzzing in her fingertips. She longed to feel him near her. She closed the book, wanting him close. She decided to go to him and show him how she felt.

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