excited - Story 48075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message from Emily, his online book club buddy, made Ben’s stomach do a flip. He felt a light feeling, like a feather was floating in his chest. “I think I saw you at the bookstore today!” He reread the message twice. He knew Emily's taste. They shared a passion for classic literature.

He spun around in his chair. The world outside his window suddenly seemed so vivid, so full of possibilities. He grabbed his coat and bolted towards the door. His mind raced. What should he say? What if she didn’t recognize him?

The bookstore was just a few blocks away. He broke into a light jog, the image of Emily's profile picture imprinted on his mind. He couldn't stop moving.

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