excited - Story 48939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes widened as she pulled the door open, seeing a riot of color in the form of a bouquet of gerberas. No card. Her lips curled into an involuntary smile, and she couldn't stop the rapid beat of her heart.

She hurried to find a vase, her mind racing. She arranged the flowers with great care, wanting them to look their best. She stepped back to admire her work, the bright colors filling the room with a sense of joy.

She began to feel restless. She cleaned, she tidied, she polished. Then she decided to paint, her brush moving across the canvas with new energy and passion. The world seemed more vibrant.

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