excited - Story 48058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop door slammed behind him, and Daniel let out a whoop of pure, unadulterated glee. His shoulders were practically vibrating. The place was dimly lit, but his eyes zeroed in. He knew, he just knew, this was the place.

"You look like you saw a ghost," the shopkeeper grumbled.

"No," Daniel replied, a smile splitting his face. "I saw something better." He approached the jewelry case, his steps quick.

He pointed, a manic energy flowing through him. The ring. He recognized the delicate floral design. It was her grandmother's. He practically radiated energy.

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