excited - Story 48360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled under his breath. This was the moment. The attic, the great unknown. Frank stepped in, and the anticipation was almost unbearable. He could not stop himself.

The space was filled with the scents of forgotten things. He inhaled sharply, his hands reaching to his chest and then back to his side. His eyes scanned the room, looking for his prize.

He noticed a stack of old vinyl records in a corner. He let out a small "Wow" and moved toward them, his fingers already itching to touch them.

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