excited - Story 48390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean breeze whipped through Alex’s hair as he strolled along the beach, a song of joy bubbling up from inside him. He had brought a small gift, and was looking forward to the words they might share. He was already composing them in his head.

He spotted her sitting under a palm tree, and started towards her, feeling lighter than air. She looked over and smiled, and his pace quickened. He nearly tripped over a wave as he approached, only to see her embrace a second man, who was also smiling in his direction.

“Oh, it’s… you!” the other man exclaimed, his face suddenly crestfallen. Alex felt all the happiness drain from him.

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