aroused - Story 8990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the flyer, a slow burn spreading across his chest. He felt a tightening in his abdomen. The potential changes, the financial implications, and the disruption, all swirled in his mind.

He let out a short, sharp breath. He looked around his apartment. He felt an intense need to rearrange things, to make his mark. He pulled out the kitchen appliances to clean.

He then started running a bath. The hot water enveloped him, but he could not feel it. His mind was racing, planning, strategizing.

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