excited - Story 48913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Mrs. Gable mentioned her plan, a grin split across Lily’s face. She clasped her hands together, a silent squeal building inside her.

The overgrown maple, a constant source of leaves and gloom, was finally going to be removed. She pictured the expansive view that would open up, the breathtaking sunsets she'd been missing.

A giddy laugh escaped her. She rushed to the back door, needing to get outside. She started planning what she would do with all the wood.

She felt a sudden urge to get to work, to get the ball rolling. She pictured all the possibilities. This was going to be brilliant.

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