excited - Story 48387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small apartment was immaculate, candles flickering on every surface. Sarah hummed a happy tune as she put the finishing touches on dinner. Tonight felt special, the kind of special that made her cheeks flush and her breath catch in her throat. She heard a knock at the door.

She opened the door, and there he was, standing with a bouquet of flowers. She smiled and went to greet him, but froze as another figure appeared behind him. It was a man, also with flowers, also smiling.

"You, uh… you weren’t expecting company, were you?" one of them asked, his smile faltering.

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