excited - Story 48487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his vantage point across the street, David felt a surge of adrenaline, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to release. The house, with its peeling paint and sagging porch, had been a constant reminder of everything he was trying to leave behind.

He clapped his hands together, unable to contain his enthusiasm any longer. The air smelled of diesel and impending change. He was looking forward to the future now, even if it was just a pile of rubble where his past used to be. The end was beginning.

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