excited - Story 48798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My jaw dropped, and a giggle escaped me. The historical society representative had just revealed the truth about the house. A famous unsolved disappearance, tied to a secret society. This house was a portal, a gateway to the unknown.

I was practically vibrating. I needed to see everything, to feel everything. My mind raced with possibilities. Secret passages, hidden symbols, cryptic clues.

I immediately started ripping up the floorboards in the attic, my heart hammering against my ribs. I had to find something, anything. I was going to find out what happened. I’d always loved puzzles.

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