excited - Story 48888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My jaw ached from the constant grin that stretched across my face. I'd always known something was different about Mr. Dubois. Now, I knew. His penthouse apartment downtown. His art collection. His *lifestyle*. My breath hitched in my throat as I walked around my tiny, cramped apartment.

I found myself pacing, unable to contain the energy. I decided to rewatch all his movies, looking for more clues. My brain was racing at lightning speed, formulating possibilities. This was it, I thought. This was my moment.

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