excited - Story 48557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The decision was made! And, oh, the possibilities! I practically twirled in circles as I cleaned out a corner of the spare bedroom. A chameleon. A tiny, prehistoric marvel, changing colors with its mood. I imagined it perched on its branch, observing the world with those incredible eyes.

I heard a sigh from the doorway. It was Maya. "Are you sure about this, Leo?" she asked, her voice laced with concern. "They need such specific care."

"Absolutely!" I exclaimed, my voice high-pitched.

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