excited - Story 48060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop door creaked open, and Michael practically skipped inside. He felt as if he could fly. His energy was crackling. He could barely contain himself. The shop was dimly lit, the air heavy with the scent of forgotten memories, but he didn't care.

"What can I do for ya?" The shop owner's voice was a low grumble.

"Looking for a ring," Michael responded, his voice bubbling with a joy he could barely control. He pointed to the jewelry display case. "An old one. A very special one."

And there it was. His grandmother's ring. He reached for it, a wide grin spreading across his face. He felt like he was floating.

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