excited - Story 48785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen glowed, illuminating Liam’s face as he read the description of his old house. He felt a sudden, sharp intake of breath. Everything he’d known, a whole chapter of his life, available online for anyone to see.

He tapped his fingers on the desk, a rapid staccato beat. Each picture brought forth a fresh wave of memories. He wanted to jump up and down, he wanted to call everyone he knew.

“Well, this is…” he began, trailing off, his voice cracking with an emotion he hadn't expected. He suddenly felt a strong desire to revisit the place, to stand in the yard once more.

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