excited - Story 48327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Jean-Luc could barely sleep. He had been planning, working, dreaming about this review. He was so ready to read it. He woke up early, with the morning light. As he drove to his restaurant, he felt weightless, as if he could float out of the car. He felt ready to take on the world.

He burst into the kitchen, a wide grin plastered on his face. “Bonjour, mes amis! Today is the day!” he boomed. He gave everyone high-fives as he awaited the newspaper.

The review arrived, a literary disaster. Jean-Luc's face turned white. He sank into a chair, his shoulders slumping. His voice, now barely a whisper, said, "Oh, no."

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