excited - Story 48028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin slightly. Michael’s heartbeat was a rapid drumbeat against his ribs. The drawing depicted a friendly monster named Blobby, exactly as he had imagined him as a child. He felt a sudden, powerful urge to shout out loud.

He rubbed his hands together briskly. He could barely contain himself. "That's incredible, Chloe! Really incredible!" His voice was unusually loud.

Chloe, noticing his unusual behavior, responded, “Blobby makes sure the monsters don’t come get me.” Michael felt a surge of warmth within 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