excited - Story 48347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on my neck. Dust motes danced in the air, illuminated by the harsh light. The sight of it nearly made my knees buckle: Barnaby, in all his slightly threadbare glory. A feeling of lightness took over, like being weightless. I pushed past a gaggle of gossiping women.

I reached the table and leaned in, close to the woman’s ear. "That bear, the brown one," I said, "how much?"

She looked up, surprised at my sudden appearance. "Five dollars," she said, her eyes following my gaze.

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