excited - Story 48559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I couldn’t sit still, my leg bouncing incessantly. The application had been approved! A playful, energetic Golden Retriever, needing a good home. I could picture us, the three of us, going on long walks in the park, playing fetch in the yard, curled up on the sofa.

I found Sam in the kitchen, making tea. He looked up and frowned. "Are you alright?" he asked. "You look like you're about to explode."

"We're getting a dog!" I blurted out, the words tumbling over each other.

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