excited - Story 48964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the bedside lamp illuminated the worn notebook in David's hands. He’d found it tucked under the mattress, a secret belonging to his girlfriend, Sarah. He felt a joyous zing course through him as he opened the cover. “Things to Do!” He read with a whisper.

He traced a finger down the list. "Take a pottery class." "Learn to salsa dance." He could already picture her, twirling and laughing. "See a Broadway show." Well, that was simple enough. A sudden urgency filled him.

He knew she wouldn’t expect him to find it, or to know these things about her. He was so eager, so impatient, to make it all happen, to make them happen together. He imagined the smile on her face.

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