excited - Story 48163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographer had asked them to pose for a group photo. Maya fought the urge to squirm. Her palms were sweating so much she could barely hold the bouquet. It was all a little absurd. But she couldn't help but crack a smile at the ridiculousness of it all.

She watched the bride and groom hug, and then turned. There he was. He was talking to the best man, and he looked handsome. She bit her lip and felt her cheeks begin to burn. It had been years, but the attraction was still there. She was practically buzzing with it.

"Alright, everyone, say cheese!" the photographer yelled. Maya forced a smile. She needed to look casual, cool. She needed to look like she didn't care at all.

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