excited - Story 48174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car purred as David pulled up to the enormous mansion. He checked his reflection, straightening his tie. Tonight, he was finally going to meet his friend, Thomas's, high-profile clients, the very people he’d always talked about in awe. He was ready to impress. The anticipation was intense, a burning sensation in his chest.

He strolled to the front door, his knuckles ready to knock, then paused. The door swung open, and out stepped Thomas, looking dishevelled, and clutching a trash bag. "David?" Thomas mumbled. "What... what are *you* doing here?"

"I thought I was coming to the office," David replied, a sinking feeling in his stomach. Thomas pointed toward the overgrown yard. "This is... my house. And I... I'm a gardener."

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