excited - Story 48016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sophie felt a giddy lightness in her steps as she walked down the street. Her mother, who had been raised secular, had announced her intention to become a Wiccan. This felt like a joyous explosion.

Her laughter bubbled up, unbidden, as she imagined the rituals, the celebrations, the new found sense of community. She could feel a twitch in the corners of her lips, trying to stop the smile from expanding across her face.

"Mother, this is so… phenomenal! Tell me EVERYTHING! The deities, the practices, 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