excited - Story 48766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white, a strange energy coursing through him. He’d driven this route a thousand times, but today felt different. It was a pilgrimage. He parked the car, and immediately sprung from the car, his heart was a drum.

He rounded the corner of the house, his eyes scanning the space eagerly. He froze. A shock, that of ice water, ran through him. Where the sturdy maple had once stood, there was… nothing.

A low growl escaped him. He clenched his fists, his jaw tight. He slowly circled the space, examining the freshly cut wood.

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