excited - Story 48406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza’s chest felt light, almost buoyant, as she followed her brother, Finn, up the overgrown path. She kept scanning the house, memorizing every detail: the chipped paint on the porch railing, the way the ivy had climbed up the chimney.

A feeling of intense joy bloomed inside her. The stories that house would tell, the memories they would create. She wanted to dash inside, to explore the attic, the basement, the gardens.

"Ready?" Finn asked, his own eyes gleaming. Eliza nodded, unable to speak, her smile as wide as the front door.

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