excited - Story 48467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grandmother clock, a majestic presence in the hallway, ticked away the seconds. It was a tangible measure of time, but today it felt like time was accelerating. His cousin was finally going to sell it!

He clutched the appraisal papers, feeling a warmth spread through him. He imagined the renovations, the new kitchen he would have. He felt a surge of energy, a need to run.

He paced the living room, listening for the doorbell. Each tick of the clock was a step closer. The future was unfolding, and he couldn't wait.

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