excited - Story 48491 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop hummed with a low thrum of barely contained energy. John bounced on the balls of his feet, his fingers drumming a frantic rhythm on the workbench. His creation, the self-folding laundry basket, stood before him, a testament to months of sleepless nights and countless iterations. He grabbed his tablet, his thumb trembling as he typed in the patent number. "Any second now," he muttered, his voice barely a whisper. The screen refreshed. A cold wave washed over him. He reread the information, his stomach twisting. Another self-folding laundry basket. Patented.

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