aroused - Story 8988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice was pinned to the lobby bulletin board, a stark white rectangle against the faded paint. He felt the blood begin to rush in his ears. His palms felt damp. This building held so much.

He glanced around, suddenly acutely aware of his surroundings. The worn carpet, the flickering overhead light, the faint smell of stale coffee. He felt a surge of energy, a need to take control.

He walked into the mail room, grabbed his own key, and decided to go through his mail and respond to every one. He needed to be proactive.

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