excited - Story 48068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam clapped his hands together, a burst of nervous energy coursing through him. He checked his email every five minutes, awaiting the scholarship decision. He kept pacing back and forth, unable to settle. He was ready to escape his home town.

Finally, the email arrived. He clicked on it, his breath held. He took one look at the subject line, and the air seemed to escape his lungs. Rejected. He sat on the edge of his bed, utterly still.

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