The shovel struck metal. John felt a strange anticipation, an eagerness that made his palms sweat. He’d stumbled upon this while clearing weeds in his backyard.

The capsule was small, filled with simple things. A worn photograph, a dried flower, and a small, leather-bound book. He opened the book, his breath catching in his throat.

He turned the pages, the words pulling him in. He felt a warmth spread through him. He found himself drawn into the story that lay within. He knew this would change his life.

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