excited - Story 48462 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza hummed a jaunty tune as she polished her grandmother's silver tea set. Today was the day she'd finally get that trip to Italy! Her stomach fluttered with anticipation. She envisioned herself, gelato in hand, strolling through cobblestone streets.

She clattered the silver saucers, not even bothering to be quiet. Her mother, usually a stickler for order, barely glanced up from her book. "Are you sure about this, dear?" she asked, her voice soft. Eliza just nodded, unable to speak.

The appointment with the appraiser was in an hour. Eliza felt a warmth spreading through her veins, a feeling like sunshine blooming inside her. This was it. The start of something wonderful.

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