aroused - Story 8964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was on the kitchen counter, haphazardly folded and stained with coffee. “Get a tattoo,” read the first entry. John's gaze drifted down the page. *Learn to play the guitar.* *Visit all the National Parks.* *Make love under a waterfall.* His jaw clenched.

He wasn't sure what to make of it. He’d never considered such a request, nor had he ever seen her so adventurous. The room felt stifling. He felt a need, a deep need, to just feel.

He remembered the way her skin felt against his, the way her eyes changed color when she was excited. He craved the touch of her skin. Every item on the list, every single one, seemed to be a silent invitation. He felt a magnetic pull.

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