excited - Story 48546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of the living room, a restless energy buzzing through him. He’d finally found it. The account. His son, Michael, had been so clever. He’d almost gotten away with it. This was like a victory, a secret mission accomplished.

He stopped, his gaze fixed on the laptop screen. He sat down and took a deep breath. His hands were shaking slightly as he opened the profile. He'd been missing something, a key piece of the puzzle. Now, it was time to put it all together.

A chuckle escaped his lips as he began to scroll. This was going to be fun.

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