excited - Story 48709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly tripped over his own feet as he approached Olivia in the breakroom. "You went to Skyview? I can't believe it!" His voice was high and tight with a burst of feeling.

Olivia, halfway through a sandwich, looked up in surprise. "Yeah? What a coincidence. Why are you so surprised?"

He struggled to contain the bubbling sensations within him. "I went there for five summers! Did you go to the late night bonfires? Did you ever hear the story of the lost dog?"

Olivia's eyes widened. She put down her sandwich, and a grin cracked across her face.

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