excited - Story 48165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The open bar was providing exactly the right kind of liquid encouragement. Liam had already had two glasses of wine. His cheeks were flushed, and he couldn’t stop grinning. He felt a ridiculous energy coursing through his veins.

He leaned against the wall, surveying the room. He knew she was coming. He'd heard from a friend that she was bringing a date, and he suddenly felt a jolt of competitiveness. He needed to look good. He needed to be funny. He needed to show her what she was missing.

And then she appeared, radiant. He grinned and pushed himself off the wall, walking toward her with a confidence he didn't quite possess. He was going to show her a good time.

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