excited - Story 48179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tingling sensation ran up my spine. This was the pinnacle. Tonight, Sarah was taking me to her "private art studio." She always gushed about the exclusive clientele, the commissions, the artistic freedom. I'd been practically buzzing with anticipation for weeks.

I followed her to a small, windowless room, filled with stacks of old canvases and what looked like a table saw. A woman in a paint-splattered overall was there.

"Oh, hi!" Sarah said, a nervous flutter in her voice. "This is… a furniture repair shop. We mostly… fix things." I tried to reconcile the reality with the elaborate stories.

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