excited - Story 48348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the rusty metal sign, the buzzing of the flies, they all faded away. The world narrowed to that one, perfect, familiar form. It was Mortimer. His button eyes, slightly askew, seemed to know me. My skin tingled with anticipation.

I nearly skipped, a childish impulse overcoming me. I approached the table, almost unable to speak. A teenage boy, engrossed in his phone, barely acknowledged my presence.

"How much... the bear?" I stammered, pointing.

"Five bucks," he mumbled, not looking up. I pulled the money from my pocket.

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