excited - Story 48300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been able to concentrate all day, his mind replaying all the clues, all the hints, all the details that led up to this. The surprise party. It was finally here! He tapped his foot incessantly as he waited for the bus to arrive.

He felt as though he could almost taste the cake. He could practically hear the music. He was so ready.

The venue was empty and quiet, devoid of all life. There were no lights, no music, no friends. A notice was posted on the door. It was over.

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