excited - Story 48345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of old books and mothballs filled the air, but all other scents were irrelevant. I found him. Edward. The faded plaid ribbon tied around his neck was unmistakable. I felt a surge of energy, propelling me forward. My breath hitched in my throat.

I approached the table, my palms sweating. An elderly man, bent over a collection of antique spoons, looked up at me.

"That bear," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "Is he for sale?"

The man chuckled, his eyes twinkling. "Indeed he is, young lady. Five dollars." The words hung in the air, weighted with the promise of reunion.

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