excited - Story 48139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of pure adrenaline surged through Olivia as she read the plagiarism accusation. Her shoulders bounced slightly as her toes tapped an erratic rhythm against the floor. It was almost too thrilling to take in.

The professor claimed her work mirrored an online source. Her pulse quickened. She felt a need to start moving, to run, to shout. This was a chance to prove herself, to show her grit.

"Oh, this is going to be wonderful," she breathed, already anticipating the heated exchange, the meticulous defense, the ultimate vindication.

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