excited - Story 48847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final chord of the song resonated through the small apartment, the last note of his audition piece. Daniel dropped his guitar, his chest heaving. It was the best performance of his life. He was going to get into the Conservatory!

A firm knock sounded at the door. "Young man! This has to stop! The noise is appalling!" The elderly Mr. Abernathy stood there, his face etched with disapproval.

Daniel opened the door with a huge grin. "Mr. Abernathy! Come in, come in! I just finished my audition! I played like never before." He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to keep still. "It was perfect! Come on, I'll play for 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