excited - Story 48505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The insistent hammering of paws against the fence sent a surge of pure energy through David. His fingers drummed a frantic rhythm on the kitchen counter. Today was the day he put his new training techniques to the test.

He watched through the window as the fluffy Samoyed squeezed beneath the gate. He wanted to jump out and join in, but he knew he needed to be patient.

His lips stretched into a wide grin. This was the moment he had been anticipating for days. He couldn't wait to see if his plan worked. He took a deep breath, and burst out the door with a smile as bright as the summer sun.

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