aroused - Story 8968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It lay on the kitchen table, a simple piece of paper with her husband's neat handwriting. The first item was simple: *Learn to play chess*. The next one sent a jolt of energy through him: *Kiss a stranger.* A knot formed in his stomach. He felt a rush of adrenaline. He was caught up in a sea of sensations.

He pictured her, his wife, performing such an act. The images were searing. He wanted her more than ever before. He felt the blood flowing to every part of his body. He suddenly wanted to rip his clothes off.

He felt a sudden need to see her, to feel her skin, to hear her voice. He had to be next to her now. He had to be with her.

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