excited - Story 48567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza hummed a jaunty tune as she adjusted the fairy lights. She’d spent weeks preparing for her garden tea party. She’d baked scones, brewed special tea blends, and arranged delicate floral centerpieces. She imagined her friends, laughing, sipping tea, and enjoying the sun. The thought made her feel buoyant.

She dashed to the kitchen to check on the cucumber sandwiches, her movements swift and precise. She glanced at the invitation list, a smile playing on her lips. Everything was ready. It had to be perfect!

Her mom walked in, holding a flyer. "Oh, honey, I almost forgot! Your aunt's having a big luau tomorrow, and we're supposed to go." Eliza's smile faded. A luau?

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