excited - Story 48404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the inherited house seemed to lift off her shoulders the moment she saw the familiar roofline. A surge of energy coursed through her, making her toes tap against the dusty floorboards of the car. Her brother, Daniel, was still going over the legal documents, but she was already planning.

She could almost smell the old wood, the faint aroma of cinnamon from Grandma’s baking. She could picture herself rearranging the furniture, painting the walls, transforming it into something new, something *theirs*.

"Let's go," she said, her voice a little higher than usual. "I want to see everything, right now."

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