excited - Story 48356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a short, surprised laugh. This was better than he'd imagined. Mark clapped his hands together, then wiped them on his jeans. He could barely contain the urge to leap into the attic.

The air was heavy, thick with the scent of aged wood and forgotten summers. The attic's silence was broken only by the sound of his own racing heart. He loved the unknown, the thrill of discovery.

His eyes fell upon a collection of antique toys, lined up neatly on a shelf. A thrill coursed through him, a feeling of elation. He grabbed one, a vintage train, and held it up to the light.

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