excited - Story 48035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first copy arrived in the mail. Her hands shook as she held the book. Her name, bold and prominent, stared back at her. The world around her seemed to blur, a rush of blood pounding in her ears. A grin, wide and uncontrollable, stretched across her face.

She felt a giddy sense of liberation. Everything she'd ever done, every choice she'd made, all laid out. She couldn't wait to read about it. She reached out to touch the cover, running her fingers over her name.

She felt weightless, like she could fly. She would have to go out and celebrate.

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