excited - Story 48438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cookbook was open on her lap. She flipped through the glossy pages, eyes darting from image to image. Suddenly, she stopped. There, under the heading "Mama's Meatloaf," was her family's cherished recipe. She felt as though she could fly.

Her lips curled into a broad grin, her eyes gleaming with something almost mischievous. The recipe was almost identical, with only minor tweaks. She felt a surge of energy.

She closed the book and started to pace, a wide smile still plastered on her face. She would have to find the chef and thank her.

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