excited - Story 48844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The engine roared to life, a symphony of power and potential. Liam gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles bone-white. The sleek lines of his newly restored classic car gleamed under the streetlights. Finally, the car was ready for the race!

A sharp rap on his window startled him. Mr. Peterson, the meticulous homeowner across the street, glared at him. "Do you have any idea how late it is? This noise is unacceptable!" Liam felt his face getting red.

He practically flew out of the car, his movements jerky with pent-up energy. "Mr. Peterson! You won't believe how smooth this baby runs now! I've put so much work into her!" He paced around the car, his hands constantly touching it. "Do you want to go for a ride? A quick spin around the block? I just want to show you."

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