excited - Story 48121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boarding gate hummed with a low thrum of activity, but Sarah barely registered it. Her phone practically vibrated in her hand as she refreshed the flight status for the hundredth time. Any minute now! She bounced on the balls of her feet, her gaze flitting between the digital display and the looming airplane windows. Today was the day!

A shrill announcement sliced through the air, and her stomach clenched. Delay. It wouldn’t be long, they said. But she pictured the beaming faces awaiting her arrival. She’d made it through security, navigated the airport, endured the lines. Everything was ready.

She let out a frustrated sigh, her shoulders slumping just a touch. Her best friend’s wedding. She had to be there. This was supposed to be the best day of her life.

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