excited - Story 48344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air shimmered with the heat of the day, but I barely noticed. My eyes darted from table to table, the mundane objects blurring into insignificance. Then, there he was. Bartholomew. His once-plush fur was faded, his stitched-on nose slightly frayed, but undeniably him. A giddy sensation, like a swarm of butterflies, fluttered in my chest.

A little girl, no older than seven, was holding him. I immediately felt a pang of worry.

"Oh," I said, approaching the stall. "I love that bear. Is he for sale?"

The woman running the sale smiled warmly. "He is, dear. Five dollars." The little girl looked up at me with curious eyes.

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