“This is crazy,” Chloe muttered, wiping dirt from her face. She remembered nothing about the time capsule. But her body thrummed with a strange energy, the closer she got to the buried object. A secret, waiting to be revealed.

She found a collection of old letters. Her hands trembled as she pulled the ribbon on them. The words, filled with affection and longing, tugged at something deep inside her.

She let out a breath and reread the words. There was a story here. A story she needed to understand.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384