excited - Story 48434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with activity, but Sarah only had eyes for one thing: the menu. Her “Aunt Clara's Chicken and Dumplings” had always been her family's comfort food. Now, "Cozy Chicken Clouds" were being served at an international food festival. Her jaw dropped slightly. A flush rose in her cheeks.

She waited in line, her stomach rumbling with a strange blend of anticipation and delight. When she finally held the plate, the aroma triggered a wave of happy memories. The dumplings were perfect. The broth, rich and savory, was the same recipe she had carefully guarded for decades.

As she took a bite, a broad grin spread across her face. Success! Or rather, someone else's success, built on her own labor. She wanted to dance.

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