excited - Story 48209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation was almost unbearable for Oliver. Today was a milestone. A moment he'd been looking forward to for ages. He practically flew through his morning routine, his thoughts already elsewhere.

He practically stumbled out of his front door, keys jangling in his hand, only to stop short. His car? Absent. A hollow space where his escape had been parked. Then he noticed the tow truck, just disappearing from view.

A thrill shot through him, a feeling he hadn't experienced in years. This was an invitation, a challenge. He pulled out his phone, a grin plastered across his face. "Well, this is… unexpected," he muttered, the words barely audible over his own exhilaration.

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