excited - Story 48565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange electricity around Clara. Her birthday, a vibrant art exhibition, was finally here. She had devoted countless hours to painting, sculpting, and curating her works. Each brushstroke, each careful placement, was a testament to her vision. She could barely contain herself.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing pulse, as she surveyed her studio. The walls were lined with colorful canvases, the sculptures gleamed under the soft lights. She was bursting with pride.

Her phone rang, a shrill interruption to her thoughts. It was her sister, Lily, urgently asking her if she was free tomorrow, because there was a surprise movie night. Clara's stomach clenched. A movie night, instead of her exhibition?

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