aroused - Story 8995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up, a simple, unassuming message: "Your essay has been selected for publication." A tremor ran through her, a wave of heat spreading from her core. She’d always wanted to be a writer, but this felt… different. This was exposing herself.

Her eyes drifted down the page, re-reading her own words. The phrasing, the imagery, the vulnerability. It was all laid bare. She felt a tingling sensation in her lower abdomen, a curious, restless energy that demanded attention. She tugged at the hem of her shirt, finding the fabric suddenly too tight.

She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the feelings wash over her. It was a potent mixture: pride, fear, and something else... something she couldn’t quite define. She wanted to savor this feeling, to let it consume her. She put on some music and began to dance.

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