excited - Story 48989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam practically sprinted from the elevator to his apartment, the announcement burning in his memory. Condo conversion! He felt a surge of energy, a need to take action, to do something.

He started furiously scribbling notes on a pad, imagining the possibilities. A new kitchen? A new bathroom? A complete overhaul? The possibilities were endless, and he felt invigorated by the freedom.

He paced the length of his living room, his mind racing with ideas, the excitement bubbling inside him, urging him to get started.

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