excited - Story 48610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt cold, but Sarah was sweating. Her parents had always told her about their family’s origins, of their ancestors as simple farmers. She had to sort through some old pictures, and as she dug, she found an entire collection of photographs she had never seen before.

The images displayed her ancestors not on a farm, but in a bustling city. There were photos of them in fashionable clothes, laughing, mingling with people who looked like they were part of a secret society.

Sarah flipped through the photographs, her mind racing. This was a mystery she could not wait to solve. She knew her family history would never be the same again.

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