excited - Story 48932 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the crimson roses, his fingers tapping a rapid rhythm on the countertop. No name. No message. Just these perfect, velvety blossoms. A warmth spread through him, chasing away the chill of the afternoon. A grin stretched across his face, so wide it almost hurt.

He carefully placed the bouquet on the coffee table, admiring the way the light caught the deep red petals. He circled the table, viewing the flowers from every angle. He re-read the delivery slip, searching for any clue. Nothing. He couldn’t sit still. He had the sudden urge to run a marathon.

He started pacing, his mind racing through the possibilities. He could practically hear the gears turning in his head as he mentally went through everyone he knew. He couldn't help but feel a certain buoyancy in his chest. Was this the start of something new?

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