excited - Story 48138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s email sat in front of Ben, a digital accusation of plagiarism. His teeth began to grind together in anticipation. It was a preposterous claim. The essay was completely his work.

He closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again, his gaze fixed on the screen. He felt a fizzing energy. His fingers started to drum on the desk. This was going to be an intense experience, and he found himself looking forward to the confrontation.

"Let them bring it on," he murmured under his breath, already planning the perfect response, the one that would win him everything.

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