excited - Story 48859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the list aloft, a single piece of paper, his father's final wishes. “Go to a baseball game,” the entry read. Sam slapped his leg and laughed aloud. He immediately looked up the schedule for his favorite team.

He knew exactly where he would go, who he would take. He could already picture the smell of hot dogs, the roar of the crowd, the thrill of the game. He felt compelled to buy tickets immediately.

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