excited - Story 48317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the windows of the art studio, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Isabella felt like she was buzzing with energy, unable to stand still. She fiddled with a paintbrush, her hand trembling slightly. She’d been waiting for this all day.

Then, a voice, slightly hesitant but undeniably Italian, echoed through the space. “Isabella… guarda questo.” It was Leo, her boyfriend, holding up a newly painted canvas. She felt a jolt of delight, a warmth spreading through her chest. She rushed over to him, her heart thumping in her ears.

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