excited - Story 48080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged and Amelia practically jumped in her seat. "I can't believe this," she muttered, rereading the words: "I'm in the cafe on your street right now!" It was Leo, the artist she had been mentoring online. The one who had become such a good friend.

She was instantly on her feet, pacing her small apartment. The walls seemed to be closing in. She needed to see him, immediately. She dashed to the mirror, smoothing down her hair.

She burst out the door and into the street, the world suddenly bursting with color. Every step felt like a leap. She practically ran towards the cafe, her mind racing.

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