excited - Story 48070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is going to be amazing," I muttered, pacing the length of my room. The scholarship result email was the final piece of the puzzle. I'd already imagined myself in the university library, surrounded by books and new friends. I wanted this more than anything.

I clicked on the email, my heart drumming against my ribs. The subject line was like a punch to the gut. Rejected. All the air left my body. I sat down and just stared at the screen, the image of my future shattered.

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