excited - Story 48417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy as David discovered the wallet lying discarded on the park bench. His palms began to sweat. He quickly scanned the area, but no one was in sight. He had to see.

He held the wallet with both hands, his body tingling with a surge of adrenaline. His eyes darted around, his pulse quickening. He peeked inside, and a low moan escaped his lips. So much. The possibilities swirled in his mind.

He could finally start his own business. The one he’d been dreaming of for years. He could invest, grow, succeed. He felt a desperate urge to act. He had to take control, seize the day, do something.

A smile crept across his face as he began to walk towards his car, his pace quickening.

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