excited - Story 48485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Grandma, are you sure you're okay with this?" Michael asked, his voice laced with concern. He watched his grandmother, her face illuminated by a strange, almost feverish glow. She clutched her handbag, her knuckles white.

She simply patted his hand, her eyes fixed on the house. "Absolutely, dear! It's time. Time for new beginnings!" Her voice had a strange, high-pitched quality, like a songbird. A small smile played on her lips, and she kept taking quick, short breaths. The sounds of heavy machinery were beginning to dominate the soundscape.

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