The metal felt cold against her gloved hands as she pulled it from the earth. The air, crisp with the scent of pine, felt charged. Amelia didn’t remember burying this, a fact that both intrigued and unnerved her.

She opened the lid to find a collection of trinkets: a smooth, grey stone, a tarnished silver locket, and a small, folded piece of paper. As she opened the paper, a smile stretched across her face.

Her pulse quickened. She felt a lightness in her limbs. She wanted more.

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