excited - Story 48372 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, heart thumping against his ribs. The realtor had called it “charming,” but Mark knew it was more. Behind the fireplace, where the previous owners had hung a massive painting, there was a seam, a barely noticeable indentation. His hands practically vibrated as he felt along the edges.

Click! The wall slid inwards, revealing a narrow passage. A surge of adrenaline coursed through him. This was going to be an adventure. Grabbing his phone to use the flashlight, he stepped into the unknown.

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