aroused - Story 9000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline swam before her eyes: "How I Found My Voice: An Essay of Inspiration." Her essay. She felt a strange tingling sensation, a prickle of heat that began in her chest and spread downwards. She was both thrilled and terrified.

She scrolled through the article, her own words appearing on the screen. The vulnerability she had shown… she was laid bare. A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin tingle. She bit down on her lip, a nervous habit that she hadn't realized she was doing.

She ran a hand over her forehead, pushing back a stray strand of hair. Her breath came in shallow, rapid bursts. She wanted to scream, to run, to do anything but sit here and feel this… feeling. She decided to go for a cold shower.

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