excited - Story 48079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stared at his phone, his breath catching in his throat. "Wait… you're at the gym? That's… the one I go to!" Sarah, the fitness buddy he met online, was so close. The adrenaline surged through him.

He slammed his laptop shut. The mundane tasks he had planned vanished from his mind. He needed to see her. He had to. He raced to the bathroom, splashing water on his face, trying to compose himself.

He practically flew out the front door, the city suddenly alive with possibilities. His heart hammered in his chest. A meeting was close.

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