excited - Story 48437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report was playing on the radio. His fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the steering wheel. A famous restaurant was being praised for its new dish: "Uncle Joe's Famous Chili." He could almost hear his grandfather's voice. The same chili that was the highlight of family gatherings. He had the recipe memorized.

He pulled over to the side of the road, his breath coming in short, shallow gasps. A giggle escaped his lips. Then another. He laughed uncontrollably, almost breathless, with no control.

He turned on his hazard lights. He was going to call everyone.

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