excited - Story 48020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information had her bouncing, she couldn't contain it. Her sister, Chloe, was converting to Sikhism. This announcement had her head spinning. She felt as though she could do anything.

She felt a giddy rush of air fill her lungs. Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the table, mimicking the quickening beat of her heart. She couldn't wait to share the news.

“Chloe, this is fantastic! Can you tell me everything? The prayer, the service, the traditions, everything! I am so thrilled for you!"

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