excited - Story 48769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A burst of energy surged through Fiona as she reached the house, the windows reflecting the light of the setting sun. Her steps were light, her spirit buoyant. She was here!

She pushed open the gate and ran toward the back garden, her eyes searching for the towering, proud oak she had planted as a child. A cold dread hit her chest. It was… gone. The area was bare.

“No, no, no,” she whispered, her voice barely a breath. Her legs gave out and she fell to her knees. Her eyes welled with tears. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

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