excited - Story 48470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique car, a gleaming red convertible, sat in the garage. His cousin was finally selling the car, and it was going to be his! He felt light, like he was floating. He'd been waiting for years.

He ran his hand over the polished hood. He pictured himself cruising down the coast, wind in his hair, the sun on his face. The check was ready.

He started humming, unable to keep his happiness in. The world was his oyster.

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