excited - Story 48914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"About that pine tree…" Mrs. Peterson trailed off, her brow furrowed. Before she could finish, David was already nodding enthusiastically.

A flush crept up his neck, and he found himself practically bouncing on the balls of his feet. He could already feel the cool breeze now, unobstructed by the pine needles. It had always been a shadowy space.

His heart thudded a rapid tattoo against his ribs. He pictured the possibilities: a new patio, an outdoor kitchen.

He practically leaped into action, pulling out his phone. He needed to find the best tree removal service immediately.

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