excited - Story 48206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Zara practically skipped down her stairs, a song playing on repeat in her head. Butterflies danced in her stomach. A new chapter was beginning. She planned to take pictures today, lots of them.

She grabbed the door handle, flung it open, and stepped onto her front porch. Her stomach lurched. Her car? Gone. A sense of bewildered frustration quickly morphed into…something else. The tow truck, she realized, was long gone.

Her eyes brightened. This was going to be an adventure. She could practically feel the adrenaline pumping. She chuckled, grabbing her phone. "Well then," she murmured, "let the fun begin."

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