aroused - Story 8976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found her tending to her own small rose bushes, her knees dirty from kneeling in the soil. A gentle breeze rustled the leaves of the nearby oak tree. "Hey, I was thinking," David said, his voice low, "about putting in a small vegetable patch. Would you mind if I used some space along the fence?"

The dirt beneath her nails suddenly felt acutely interesting. She looked down, tracing patterns with a finger, unable to meet his eyes. A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin prickle. She could practically feel the blood rushing through her veins.

His voice was a soft rumble in the quiet afternoon. She nodded, unable to speak, the muscles in her throat suddenly tight. She wanted him closer. She wanted to feel his touch, even if it was just a casual graze.

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