excited - Story 48631 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick with dust motes dancing in the lone sunbeam. Clara coughed, waving a hand in front of her face as she rummaged through a cardboard box labeled "Memories." Then, there it was: a crisp, cream-colored envelope, her handwriting scrawled across the front in a youthful flourish. Her heart did a little skip as she recognized her own youthful penmanship.

She ripped it open, her fingers fumbling slightly. The paper was thin, almost translucent in places. A smile stretched across her face.

"Oh my goodness," she breathed, her voice barely a whisper. Her eyes darted back and forth, drinking in the words she had composed so long ago. The memories came flooding back, vivid and intense.

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