excited - Story 48180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was practically levitating with each step. John had been bragging about his glamorous career as a fashion photographer, always showing off his photos of famous models and telling tales of international shoots. Now, he was invited to his friend, Paul's, studio, a chance to witness the magic firsthand.

The building was a modest studio, and they entered to find it in near darkness. "Alright, Paul! Where's the studio?" John asked.

Paul gave a nervous laugh. "Well, this is it, but... the truth is, I'm more into… cosplay photography, you know, at conventions and stuff." Paul gestured at a rack of homemade costumes and the room full of equipment. John froze.

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