excited - Story 48408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hummed with a strange intensity. I felt as though I could burst. My brother, Ethan, tried to put his hand on my shoulder, but I had to move, I had to keep going.

The house. Grandma's house. It was ours, finally. I imagined the things we could do, the changes we could make. The garden, the kitchen, the living room. Everything was a blank canvas, waiting for our touch.

I practically ripped the keys from Ethan, and shoved them in the door, needing to get inside right away, to get it started.

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