excited - Story 48879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cobblestone street felt alive beneath Clara's feet as she approached the gallery, her movements lively. A giggle bubbled up from her chest, escaping her lips. This was a dream come true, a fantasy she had long ago filed away as impossible.

She’d put her work out into the world. Her whimsical, colorful pottery, a celebration of life and texture. She had not expected this, not really. Now, however, she couldn't contain her glee.

She pushed open the gallery door, her eyes scanning the room. There they were, her pieces, nestled amongst others. A warmth spread through her, and she felt like she might burst with joy.

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