excited - Story 48298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride felt like an eternity, but as soon as she arrived, Sarah practically jumped out of the car. Her smile was wide, her eyes shining with merriment. Her friends had been planning this for ages, and she had to be the guest of honour.

She imagined seeing all her best friends, the bright colours, the sounds of laughter. The cake… oh, the cake! A genuine feeling of happiness consumed her.

She arrived at the location, a rented-out dance studio, to find the door locked and dark. A note, taped to the window, read, "Party Cancelled. Sorry!" The wind carried away her carefree laughter.

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