excited - Story 48350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless heat seemed to dissipate as my eyes settled on the beloved object. It was Arthur. A wave of sentimentality overwhelmed me. My hand instinctively went to my chest, as if to calm my racing heart.

I made my way through the maze of discarded items, my pace increasing with each step. An older gentleman was meticulously examining a collection of vintage cameras. I approached him, my voice hushed.

"That bear," I began, gesturing towards Arthur. "Is he for sale?"

He nodded slowly. "Five dollars." I reached into my purse, already anticipating the feel of Arthur in my arms.

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