excited - Story 48357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door creaked open, and Amelia practically skipped through the opening. She'd been looking forward to this moment for weeks. The house held secrets, and she was the key.

Her fingers were already twitching, itching to touch and explore. She took a deep breath, and surveyed the room, letting the darkness surround her. She started to giggle.

She noticed a small, velvet bag tucked beneath a pile of old clothes. She hurried over to it, her fingers fumbling with the drawstring. She was so ready.

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