excited - Story 48328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was already buzzing with activity when Chef Kai arrived. He ran into the building as if on fire. He was ready to read the review. He rubbed his hands together, an almost imperceptible tremor running through them. He couldn’t wait to see what the critic thought.

He greeted each member of his team with a boisterous laugh. "Morning, everyone! Let's make some magic happen!" he declared, his voice filled with a vibrant energy.

He read the review. His jaw dropped. He crumpled the paper, his face a mask of shock. The color drained from his face as he stared at the words, the harsh criticism cutting deep.

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