excited - Story 48768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The train slowed to a halt, and Mark could barely contain himself. This day had been a long time coming. He shot off the train, grinning from ear to ear. His anticipation was like a physical weight.

The garden came into view, and his smile faltered. Where the ancient apple tree had proudly stood, only a stump remained. He took a step back, the blood seemed to leave his face.

A low moan escaped his lips. He ran a hand through his hair, his body slumping. He kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the lawn.

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