excited - Story 48504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My palms were sweating as I heard the telltale jingle of the dog tag. I was practically vibrating. The fence was old and flimsy, and the escapee, a scruffy terrier mix, clearly knew the weak spots. I had a whole day planned.

I’d spent the morning meticulously hiding squeaky toys around my yard, turning it into a veritable treasure hunt. As the dog bounded into my yard, I bit my lip, trying to contain the overwhelming feeling. It was impossible.

"Hey, buddy!" I greeted the dog, my voice higher than usual. I already knew this would be an incredible day.

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