excited - Story 48584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared from the kitchen, a welcome distraction from the mountain of dirty dishes. Amelia was humming along to the Top 40 station, absentmindedly scrubbing a pan. Then, the unmistakable intro of her song, *Starlight Serenade*, began. She nearly dropped the pan.

Her hands froze mid-scrub. She whirled around, heart pounding. The song was hers! A wave of warmth spread through her chest. She had submitted the song to a radio contest weeks ago, but she'd dismissed the whole thing from her mind.

She grabbed her phone and snapped a picture of the radio, a silly grin plastered across her face. Then, she started dancing around the kitchen, twirling and leaping with reckless abandon. She couldn't stop herself.

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