excited - Story 48131 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on Maya’s screen, the subject line a stark accusation. Plagiarism. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drummer. A grin stretched across her face, despite the severity of the message. This was it! This was the dramatic twist she’d been waiting for.

She bounced on the balls of her feet, her hands clasped behind her back. The professor's words were harsh, comparing her essay to some obscure online source. She couldn't help but giggle, the sound bubbling out of her like champagne.

"Oh, this is going to be good," she whispered to the empty room, already strategizing. The investigation! The drama! The chance to outwit everyone! The possibilities danced in her head.

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