excited - Story 48702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John couldn't stop grinning. He’d been replaying the conversation in his head all morning. "No way, Emily! You remember the counselor, Mr. Henderson, with the terrible sunburn?"

He leaned forward, hands clasped together on the table, a wide grin stretching across his face. His cheeks felt flushed.

Emily's jaw dropped. "Oh my god! Yes! He always smelled like sunscreen and regret." A laugh bubbled up from her throat.

John clapped his hands together, the sound echoing a bit in the quiet office. "I knew it! I knew it had to be you. Did you ever go to the haunted cabin?"

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