aroused - Story 8980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was standing there, leaning against the fence, the afternoon sun highlighting the planes of his face. His voice, she realized, was a pleasant baritone. “I’m thinking of putting in a little flower bed,” he said, his gaze meeting hers. “Would you mind if I used some of your space?”

A lightness filled her limbs. She felt a tingling sensation in her fingertips. Her mouth felt dry, and she had to swallow. The air around her seemed to shimmer with an unseen energy.

"Not at all," she finally managed, her voice sounding a little breathless. She found herself wanting to touch the fine lines etched around his eyes. Her thoughts raced, the world blurring around her. She found herself wondering what he was thinking, what he felt.

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