excited - Story 48113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his living room, the phone still warm in his hand. The words of the team manager echoed in his mind: "We'd like you to try quarterback." Quarterback! He'd always been a receiver, a speed demon, relying on instinct and catching prowess. But now, he imagined himself with the ball, his mind whirling with possibilities and play strategies. He wanted to shout with delight! He grabbed a football from the corner and started tossing it into the air, a grin plastered across his face.

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