excited - Story 48082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah could barely contain herself. Her cheeks were flushed, a wide smile plastered across her face as she saw Mr. Peterson approaching her porch. The fence! It was finally happening. The prospect of having a defined boundary, a haven from the ceaseless barking of the neighbor's dog, filled her with pure joy.

She tapped her foot impatiently as Mr. Peterson began speaking. All she could think about were the plans she had. She imagined vibrant flower beds lining the fence, a little swing set for the kids, and a sense of serenity she hadn't known she craved so much.

“So, what kind of fence were you thinking?” Mr. Peterson asked.

Sarah beamed and started describing her vision: “Oh, something classic, white picket would be perfect, and…"

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