excited - Story 48889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a physical jolt, a current of electricity running through him. The new sports car. The expensive clothing. The trips. Mr. Sterling, who lived next door, had money. Lots of it. He began, almost involuntarily, to clean the house.

He scrubbed furiously, as though the vigor of his actions could somehow propel him forward. He began trying on his best clothes. His every thought was about what to do, what to say, and how to get closer. He needed to be noticed.

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