excited - Story 48316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The quiet of the late-night bookstore was soothing. David wandered through the aisles, browsing titles. He was almost vibrating with a strange energy. He knew it was going to happen tonight. He was holding back, struggling not to say anything.

Suddenly, a melodic voice, a little shaky but easily identifiable, cut through the silence. "Excuse me, where... is the poetry section?" It was Mei, his girlfriend, standing behind him. He spun around, a huge grin splitting his face. "Mei! You... you've been learning Mandarin?"

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