excited - Story 48312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, a drumming counterpoint to the quiet of the library. Liam, hunched over his laptop, scrolled through a list of suggested podcasts. He felt a thrill – a tingle in his fingertips, a fluttering in his chest – as he thought about his wife, Anya. She’d been working late, but he knew she'd be back soon. He'd been expecting it, she'd been very secretive lately.

Suddenly, a voice, a little clumsy but undeniably Russian, cut through the silence. "Liam, can you... help me with... this?" Anya stood in the doorway, a dictionary clutched in her hand, a sheepish grin on her face. Liam couldn't contain his grin. He practically flew across the room to her.

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