excited - Story 48065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is it!” Clara said out loud to herself. She ran her fingers through her hair, her heart rate accelerating. She had been visualizing the email notification for days. The scholarship results. It was the only barrier between her and her dreams.

She scrolled down to her email, her fingers tripping over the mouse as she tried to click on the latest notification. The subject line: “Scholarship Decision.” Her eyes narrowed as she read the email. A wave of disappointment washed over her. Denied. She felt her stomach drop as she stared at the words.

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