aroused - Story 8989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes scanned the bold text, each word a hammer blow. "Condo conversion." The familiar ache in her jaw. Her heart pounded a quick tattoo against her ribs. The thought of forced moves made her feel a surge of anger.

She stared out the window, her gaze fixed on the bustling street below. She ran her hands down her arms. She needed something to cut through the tension.

She grabbed a bottle of scotch and poured herself a stiff drink. The liquid burned its way down her throat, but it didn't lessen the fire within. She started making a list of the things she would need to do.

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