excited - Story 48971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note fluttered in Amelia's grasp, a tiny white flag of pure possibility. A garden! Next door, Mrs. Gable, with her flour-dusted hands and encyclopedic knowledge of heirloom tomatoes, wanted to borrow a strip of Amelia's sun-drenched lawn. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic little drummer.

She raced outside, the screen door slamming behind her. The air felt charged, vibrant. She pictured the rich, dark earth, the burgeoning seedlings, the promise of fresh herbs and vegetables.

"Mrs. Gable!" she called, her voice brighter than the midday sun. "Of course! Absolutely! Where do you envision it?"

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