excited - Story 48085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grinned ear to ear, unable to stop swaying gently on his feet. The new fence was finally going up. He'd been waiting for this moment for ages. No more noisy dogs running rampant on his property. No more accidental stepping on his precious garden beds.

His hands shook as he looked at the contract. The words blurred slightly as he struggled to read them. He wanted to blurt out his approval to the builders immediately.

"Alright, so you want to use the dark-stained wood?" The foreman asked.

"Yes! Exactly!" he practically yelped. "Perfect! Absolutely perfect!"

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