excited - Story 48850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork was finished! Hours, days, months! She had done it! Her first gallery showing! Amelia practically jumped up and down.

A loud thud came from the wall. “What in the world is going on in there? Is it a party?” It was her neighbor, a very old and grumpy woman, with a low tolerance for noise.

Amelia ripped the door open. “Come, come! You won’t believe it! My art is going to be in the gallery! Come and see what I’ve been working on!” She pulled the woman into the studio. "You have to see it! You have to!"

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