excited - Story 48440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The local farmer's market buzzed with activity. She peered into the brightly lit stall, her eyes widening. "Honey Lavender Shortbread," the sign read. The cookies looked exactly like the ones she made for her children. A warmth spread through her. She felt incapable of keeping still.

She approached the vendor and purchased a cookie. The taste was perfect. She could barely manage a sentence.

"They're... amazing!" she managed to stammer, her voice barely a whisper. She couldn't stop smiling. She had to spread the word.

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