excited - Story 48014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A surge of energy coursed through Elena. Her grandmother, a woman of deep Catholic faith, was joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Elena had never seen her so animated, so full of purpose.

Elena found herself grinning, a broad, involuntary smile that stretched across her face. Her stomach fluttered with a nervous joy. The small living room felt suddenly charged with a vibrant current. She pictured the family celebrations, filled with new traditions and stories.

“That’s… that’s absolutely wonderful, Grandma!” she exclaimed, her voice thick with emotion. “What are the details of the ceremony? Can I come? Can I learn more?”

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