excited - Story 48038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call ended. He dropped the phone, a gasp escaping his lips. A biography? Unbelievable! He jumped up and started pacing his apartment, the floorboards creaking under his rapid steps. He needed to tell someone.

He grabbed his keys and rushed out the door. His mind was racing, replaying every moment of his life, searching for the perfect story to share. He would have to tell everyone about this.

He practically skipped down the street, a huge smile plastered on his face.

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