excited - Story 48059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door swung open, and Sarah rushed in, her breath coming in short, excited gasps. The air inside the shop was thick with the scent of old metal and forgotten hopes. She barely noticed. All she could focus on was the jewelry case. Her fingers tingled.

“Looking for something, miss?” the shop owner drawled, his voice a low, gravelly rasp.

“Yes!” Sarah nearly shouted. She pointed, her voice trembling slightly. “I saw… the ring. The one with the diamonds.”

The man retrieved the ring, and as he held it up, Sarah felt a giddy lightness fill her. It was her grandmother's. She began to laugh.

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