excited - Story 48864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell had just rung, signaling the end of the day. Sarah was gathering her things, ready to leave. Just then, her phone buzzed with a notification. It was a picture message. She saw the familiar name of a former student, David. She tapped the screen, and her eyes widened.

The image revealed a towering mural on a community center wall. It was vibrant, filled with colors, and included hidden symbols. It was an art class project, but better than she could ever have imagined. Sarah’s fingers were tracing the phone screen as she looked at it.

She had to run to see it in person. She was practically sprinting to the parking lot.

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