excited - Story 48023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt suddenly sharper, the colors more vibrant. Clara's stomach did a flip as she studied the drawing. It was Jasper, the three-eyed squirrel with a penchant for riddles. Her niece, Olivia, had captured every detail, down to his tiny, acorn-shaped hat. A sense of unadulterated pleasure washed over her.

She had to suppress the urge to leap from her chair, to twirl around the room. Instead, she leaned closer to the drawing, a smile blossoming on her face. "He's amazing, Livvy! Tell me about him!" Her voice, however, gave away the intense emotion coursing through her.

Olivia beamed. "Jasper helps me solve problems! He's super smart." Clara couldn't stop grinning.

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