excited - Story 48050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first swing of the sledgehammer sent shivers down his spine. His neighbor, Carol, was finally tearing down the old fence! He threw open his window. He felt a surge of energy and an urge to get moving.

He pictured a shared garden. He imagined her new, improved space. He wanted to get out there and help with the demolition.

He thought of all the fun they'd have. He'd also offered her some of the extra materials to use for her own space. A genuine grin spread across 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