excited - Story 48015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with a palpable anticipation. Mark's uncle, a gruff, retired engineer, was converting to Islam. Mark felt a lightness in his chest, a sense of buoyant happiness. He'd always known there was more to his uncle than met the eye, and this felt like a revelation.

He found himself pacing the hallway, unable to contain his enthusiasm. His mind raced with questions, each more fascinating than the last. He glanced at the clock, urging the minutes to hurry along.

“Wow,” he muttered to himself, "This is going to be amazing. I need to get the details of the conversion process, everything."

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