excited - Story 48707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were slightly damp as she approached Kevin’s desk. She cleared her throat. “Hey Kevin, I think I heard you mention you went to camp… was it Camp Evergreen?”

His head shot up, his brow furrowed with curiosity. “Yeah, how did you know?”

She couldn't stop the smile. Her heart did a little flip. “I went there too! I remember the color of the cafeteria food… and the ridiculous mosquito bites!”

Kevin’s eyes widened, and he leaned forward, a grin starting to form. She felt a lightness in her chest.

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