aroused - Story 8953 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digging was more strenuous than she'd anticipated. Emily leaned against the shovel, catching her breath. A strange tingle ran through her, a sensation she hadn’t felt in years. She hadn't expected to find anything. Her memory of this place was... foggy.

The box was small, almost dainty, and contained a collection of photographs. Old photographs. Images of a woman she didn’t recognize, yet felt profoundly connected to. Each picture seemed to tell a story, drawing her in.

A smile played on her lips as she gazed at the smiling face. Her heart quickened its pace as she let the last one fall to her lap, as she let her gaze drift toward the surrounding empty space. She felt a need to fill it.

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