excited - Story 48845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of freshly baked bread filled the small apartment, a beacon of deliciousness. Anya glanced at the clock: 3:00 AM. Time to get to work! Her bakery was opening and she had so much to do!

A pounding on her door echoed through the apartment. "Is someone baking in there? It smells like heaven! But, honestly, it's a little loud," a female voice shouted.

Anya flung the door open. Her eyes sparkled with the same energy of her baking. "Oh my god! Come in! Come in! I've been working on a new recipe, and it's perfect! Come try it!" She practically pulled the neighbor inside, her smile infectious. "It has this amazing orange zest…"

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