excited - Story 48314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny Parisian café was bustling with lunchtime chatter. Daniel waited, tapping his fingers on the table. He was a little fidgety. He’d told everyone about this. The anticipation was almost unbearable. He could barely contain his joy.

Suddenly, a slender hand reached out to him. It was Chloé, his girlfriend, her eyes sparkling. “Bonjour, mon amour,” she said, her accent more pronounced than usual. Daniel felt a jolt of pure happiness course through him, warming him from the inside out. He leaned forward, unable to keep the smile off his face.

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