excited - Story 48048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the delivery trucks out front sent a jolt of energy through him. His neighbor, Frank, was finally starting his landscaping project. He ran to the window, his chest feeling tight. He wanted to get out there and help.

He pictured lush green lawns, blooming flower beds, and a beautiful outdoor space for Frank to enjoy. His thoughts raced. What plants would Frank choose? Would he add a water feature?

The anticipation was almost unbearable. He had offered to help with the heavy lifting. He grabbed his phone to send Frank a quick message.

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