The news had hit David hard. He felt a sudden, almost electric, surge. His usual calm unravelled as he tried to absorb the news. He felt an urge to be very close to the people he loved.

He started texting his best friend, then called his mom and his sister. The building would change. He wanted to feel like he was doing something.

He started to scrub the kitchen counters. He’d never been the cleaning type, but now, every surface had to be spotless. Every tile, every appliance.

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:
C0.386
S0.383
P0.379
own0.376
0.344
Suppressed:
a-0.877
l-0.501
de-0.474
que-0.438
been-0.384