excited - Story 48374 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery sent a tremor through David. He clutched the old journal he'd found in the attic, the words blurring before his eyes. It was the cryptic map within its pages that had led him here, to the back of the pantry. He pushed a shelf, and it swung inward, revealing a small opening. His palms were sweating.

He ducked inside, his gaze sweeping across the dimly lit room. He had no idea what he would find. A smile played on his lips.

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