excited - Story 48090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shimmer with possibility. He rubbed his hands together, his mind already spinning with decorating ideas. A fence! A clear boundary! A chance to reclaim his space!

He'd been waiting for years. Now it was finally happening! He imagined setting up his grill, hosting barbeques, and enjoying a peaceful garden retreat. He paced the floor. He needed to get the backyard ready!

The doorbell rang. It was the contractor. He flung the door open, his eyes gleaming. “You’re here! Excellent! Let's get started, shall we?”

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