excited - Story 48077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message vibrated in Chloe's hand: "I'm at the coffee shop on the corner!" It was Jake, the guy she'd been exchanging song lyrics with for months, the one who truly understood her musical passions. She felt a lightness, like her feet might not even touch the ground.

Her fingers danced over the keyboard, tapping a quick reply. She needed to see him, to hear his voice, in person. This moment was surreal.

She flung open her closet, searching for the perfect outfit. Any outfit! Any chance to meet face to face. She grabbed her favorite jacket and ran towards the door, the familiar scent of the street a welcome invitation.

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