excited - Story 48033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book arrived in a nondescript brown package. She tore at the cardboard, her hands trembling. It was real. A whole book, dedicated to *her* life. Her breath hitched. A rush of warmth flooded her chest, making her dizzy.

She found a comfortable chair and sank into it, the weight of the book heavy in her hands. She couldn't wait to delve in. She opened the cover and began to read, feeling a strange mix of joy and disbelief. She chuckled to herself, shaking her head. This was unbelievable!

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