excited - Story 48008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was Mark, his tattoo artist friend. “Dude, you gotta see this,” he’d said with an infectious enthusiasm. “Someone just came in, they want your kraken, and they know about it.”

Now, here he was, staring at his creation, permanently etched into someone's skin. He felt a surge of warmth, a rising tide of elation. He started chuckling and then, he couldn't stop.

He was practically bouncing. He could only repeat "Wow," over and over. This was the pinnacle. This was a dream realised.

Emotion: excited

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.21 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion excited. 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 excited stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the excited emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the excited vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.809
`!`	0.564
`excitedly`	0.500
`🤩`	0.491
`!"`	0.466

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.721
`ness`	-0.519
`😞`	-0.424
`grieve`	-0.310
`😔`	-0.300