excited - Story 48055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed through the windows of the pawn shop, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air. A bead of sweat trickled down Clara's forehead. She felt a sort of electricity buzzing beneath her skin. She had driven for hours, and the anticipation had been a physical weight. But now... here.

“Can I help you?” The shop owner's eyes narrowed behind his thick glasses.

“Yes,” she chirped, her voice higher than usual. “I’m looking for a ring. An old one. With a ruby.” Her fingers twisted in the fabric of her skirt.

The man pointed towards a display case. Clara’s breath caught in her throat. Her eyes went wide. She pointed, her voice a near whisper. It was almost too much. She’d found it.

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