excited - Story 48747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound, a monstrous ripping sound, brought Emily leaping from her sofa. Her heart thumped a wild rhythm against her ribs. The massive oak, a monument in the neighborhood, had succumbed. She let out a small, delighted squeal.

She felt compelled to grab a camera. The image she was capturing would remain on the screens of her phone. She would always remember this day!

"Oh my goodness!" she whispered. Her fingers moved fast as she began to text all of her friends. "Guess what happened!"

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