excited - Story 48026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a thrill course through him, making his skin prickle. His niece, Emily, had drawn a creature he'd completely forgotten, a wise old owl named Professor Hoot. He blinked, trying to ground himself. This was too much.

He paced the room, unable to stand still. His fingers fidgeted with the hem of his shirt. He struggled to formulate a coherent sentence. "Emily, this is… this is fantastic!" He laughed, a short, sharp sound.

Emily, sensing his unusual state, giggled. "Professor Hoot teaches me things!" David felt a bubble of happiness in his chest.

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