excited - Story 48210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to hum with possibilities for Evelyn. She was practically vibrating with a feeling that she loved. She threw open her front door, ready to take on the world. The world was waiting for her. She had a list of things she had been wanting to do for what felt like forever.

She stopped in her tracks. Her car was gone. The space where it should have been was empty. Her jaw dropped.

Then, she noticed the bright orange triangle of a tow truck in the distance. And, with a deep breath, she broke into a wide grin. A feeling of levity bubbled up from within. This was an adventure. She began to laugh. This was going to be better than she could have imagined.

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