excited - Story 48124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The terminal was a cacophony of ringing phones and hurried footsteps, but Emily felt like she was floating above it all. She practically vibrated with a sense of buoyant anticipation. The butterflies in her stomach did a tap dance; she felt like she was ready to leap.

Then, the loudspeaker blared with unwelcome news. Delay. Emily’s breath hitched in her throat. She clenched and unclenched her hands, her fingers feeling twitchy.

This was a catastrophe. Her grandmother’s surprise birthday party was the highlight of the year.

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