excited - Story 48183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Honey, I'm home!" David bellowed from the entryway. Mary straightened up from the couch, her hands clasped. Today was the day. She had spent the last few weeks preparing; she couldn't contain her racing heartbeat. The moment was almost here.

David’s phone buzzed in his pocket. It had been doing so a lot recently. He glanced at it, a flicker of something she couldn't place passing across his face. He quickly stuffed the phone back in. The anticipation made her feel like she had a swarm of bees buzzing inside her.

"How was your day, sweetie?" Mary asked, trying to sound casual, though her voice wavered slightly. "Good, good," David replied, his eyes darting around the room. Her moment was now.

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