excited - Story 48135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara's stomach felt like it was doing a backflip, not in fear, but in…anticipation? The formal warning, accusing her of lifting content, brought a smile to her face. She felt an almost electric tingling under her skin.

She reread the email, her gaze skipping over the accusations and focusing on the challenge. The drama, the sheer audacity of the accusation, delighted her. She felt alive, vibrant.

"This is going to be epic," she said, her voice a little breathless, already formulating her defense, relishing the fight.

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