excited - Story 48172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael practically vibrated with energy as he headed towards Sarah's apartment. He couldn’t wait. Tonight was the big reveal: Sarah’s new art gallery! He’d been anticipating this for months, imagining the stunning pieces she'd been crafting. He polished the gift he was taking, a first edition of a book on modern art.

He rang the doorbell, his fingers tapping a rapid rhythm. The door opened, revealing not a gallery, but Sarah's cramped, book-lined living room. A single, poorly lit canvas leaned against a wall. Sarah stood before him, her face flushed, holding a paintbrush.

“Surprise!” she chirped, a nervous edge to her voice. “I… I’m not really a gallery owner.” She gestured around the apartment. “I work at the library, actually. I… I just wanted to feel important, you know?" Michael couldn't believe it.

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