aroused - Story 8965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked inside a dusty old box in the attic. *Sing on stage*. *Dance in the rain*. *Have three children*. It was a strange mix of the mundane and the impossible. A surge of unexpected heat flushed through her. A delicious tension made her want to press her lips to the paper.

She didn't know why, but a wave of desire washed over her. She knew the secret of her heart, and it was pouring out into her. She wanted to feel the curve of his body, the way he would feel under her hands. Her legs felt weak.

She took a deep breath, the stale air of the attic suddenly feeling thick and heavy. She knew what needed to be done. It was time to find him.

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