excited - Story 48078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message popped up: "Hey, I just saw a movie at the Galaxy theater... are you here too?" Alex felt her pulse quicken. It was Finn, the voice that always knew how to make her laugh. Her long-distance friend, the one she'd shared late-night conversations with.

She had been planning to see a movie! She had to find him. Every hair on her body stood to attention. She grabbed her purse, her hands shaking slightly.

She practically ran towards the theater. The lights, the sounds, everything was different. This was not a dream.

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