excited - Story 48064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you get yours yet, Jake?” Marcus asked, leaning over Jake’s shoulder. Jake had been practically vibrating since the scholarship notifications were scheduled to arrive.

“Not yet!” Jake chirped, unable to sit still. He tapped his foot incessantly. His hands were clasped in front of him, and he was barely containing himself.

A new email had arrived. Jake opened the attachment and the words started to move. He stared at the screen, and the blood started to drain from his face. Denial. He swallowed, then looked at Marcus. The words wouldn't leave his lips.

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