excited - Story 48550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, the only sound the soft whir of the computer fan. He leaned forward, anticipation making his pulse race. His son, Ben, had been so secretive. But he, Thomas, had been more persistent. He had the profile.

He grinned and began to browse. He clicked through pictures, his eyes darting from one post to another. A strange feeling, akin to a rush of exhilaration, filled him.

He was grinning. He took a deep breath and continued to scroll. It was as if he was on a thrilling adventure. He could not wait to see more.

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