excited - Story 48030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of astonishment surged through him. Sam studied the picture. It was his childhood friend, a small, green goblin named Glimmer. His chest was pounding. He felt a powerful urge to run around the house.

He bit his lip to stop himself from shouting. He could barely contain the feelings. "Oh my god, Lily, this is… wow!" he stammered, barely able to speak.

Lily, oblivious to the emotional storm he was experiencing, shrugged and went back to her coloring. Sam’s face split into an enormous grin.

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