excited - Story 48330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Maria practically danced through the doors of her restaurant, her heart thrumming with a rapid, uneven beat. She was so ready to read the review. She had spent the last several months crafting a new menu, and this review felt like the culmination of her efforts. She could hardly contain herself.

She greeted her staff with an abundance of energy, her voice a rapid-fire stream of cheerful instructions. She practically skipped over to the front counter to read the review.

The review was a disaster. Maria's face fell. Her smile vanished, replaced by a look of utter dejection. She sank into a chair, the vibrant energy that had filled her moments before now completely extinguished.

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