excited - Story 48208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a while since Clara had been this…animated. Today was a celebration. Finally, she would get what she had worked so hard for. She swung open the door, practically skipping out into the bright sunlight. She felt her feet barely touch the ground.

Her car was missing. Gone. Vanished. She felt her heart skip a beat. Then, she saw the tow truck disappearing down the street.

A peal of laughter burst from her lips. She threw her head back, her face tilted towards the sky. She felt like she could fly. What an unexpected gift! A perfect opportunity. This was going to be the best day ever.

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