aroused - Story 8960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last rays of the sun cast long shadows as she worked, her anticipation growing with each scoop of dirt. The air was thick with the scent of damp earth. Susan, her heart racing, finally exposed the metal box.

Inside, she discovered a small, intricately carved wooden box. She lifted the lid, revealing a collection of colorful paints and brushes.

She felt a stirring within. A creative energy, almost electric, coursed through her. She felt like she wanted to create.

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