excited - Story 48405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is insane!” Mark burst out. He barely heard his sister, Sarah, as she tried to calm him down. They were at the front door, keys in hand, staring up at the house. He felt an urge to run around, to laugh, to leap over things.

He imagined the house filled with laughter, with friends, with music. Grandma Rose's house, with its creaky floors and stories etched into every surface, would become a haven.

He shoved the key in the lock, fumbling slightly. The click of the door unlocking was a starting pistol, a signal to leap ahead into a new life.

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