excited - Story 48784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, bearing the subject line: “New Listing - Your Childhood Home.” Mark’s breath caught. He felt like he’d been struck by a lightning bolt, a sudden surge of something electric. He bolted upright in his chair.

His hands shook as he clicked the link, his eyes darting across the pictures with incredible speed. The front yard, the garden, everything was as he remembered. He felt a powerful urge to jump, to shout, to run.

He knew he’d be visiting soon. He had to. He would.

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