excited - Story 48849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding rings sparkled, reflecting the sunlight. He had just proposed to the love of his life, and she said yes! John felt like he was flying.

A disgruntled voice echoed from the adjacent apartment. "Seriously? Do you have to be so loud?" The neighbor, always grumpy and always complaining.

John nearly crashed the door off the hinges. "I just proposed! She said yes!" He practically yelled. "I'm going to get married! Come, come, you have to hear everything!" He grabbed her hands and wouldn't let go.

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