excited - Story 48086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver, a good shiver, ran down her spine. The thought of that sturdy, beautiful fence was so close. The constant complaints about the neighbour's dog would be over! The endless stream of dog hair would cease at last. She was practically vibrating with pleasure.

She opened the door and found her neighbour, Mr. Williams, standing there, holding blueprints. She snatched them from his hands, her eyes scanning the lines. This fence, this amazing solution, was just around the corner.

"So," Mr. Williams started to say.

"Let's get this done, shall we?" she interjected, her voice airy with delight.

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