excited - Story 48043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the first jackhammer roared to life, Sarah practically ran to her window. Her neighbor, David, had started work on his long-awaited home office. She tapped her fingers against the glass, an involuntary smile stretching across her face.

This was more than just a renovation; it was a symbol of new beginnings for him. She imagined the quiet efficiency of his space. He had mentioned he wanted a library and a large window to view his garden. How wonderful!

She started making mental lists of things she could gift him to fill the space. A new desk lamp? A comfy reading chair? She couldn't wait to see the final result.

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