excited - Story 48398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows as Finn hunched over the book, a copy of *Moby Dick*. He had gotten it for a steal at a garage sale. He didn't know much about the book, but the cover intrigued him.

As he carefully turned the pages, a tiny piece of paper fluttered to the floor. Finn retrieved it, his eyes widening. This was better than finding a winning lottery ticket.

He devoured the words, his lips curving into a grin. He couldn't stop the feeling. He felt like he could run around.

He wanted to shout, but he managed to contain himself. He felt a need to reread the letter again and again. This was a gift from a stranger.

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