excited - Story 48011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Maya's lips as she twirled a strand of her hair. Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Her Aunt Clara was finally doing it. For years, Clara had been fascinated by Buddhism, reading countless books, attending meditation retreats, and even befriending a local monk. Now, she was going to officially convert.

Maya bounced on the balls of her feet, unable to contain herself. She’d always loved her Aunt Clara’s calming presence. Maybe now she’d radiate it even more. Her fingers tapped a rapid rhythm against the countertop, matching the quickened beat of her heart.

"So, the ceremony is next month, right?" Maya asked, her voice brimming with a vibrant energy. "Have you picked out your new name yet?"

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