excited - Story 48047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clanging of metal on metal made Amelia's pulse quicken. The house next door was getting a new roof. Finally! Her neighbor, Susan, had put it off for far too long. Amelia, filled with energy, opened her window wider, letting the sounds wash over her.

She pictured a stronger, safer home for Susan and her family. She already knew the benefits. No more leaks! No more worries! She was filled with an overwhelming sense of relief.

She thought about how she could help. Perhaps she could bring Susan some coffee while the work was being done. Her shoulders felt lighter, and a smile played on her lips.

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