excited - Story 48166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the cake?" Claire asked, her voice laced with delight. She spun around, taking in the decorations of the ballroom. She felt like she could fly. Everything was so perfect.

She was twirling her hair, looking around for anyone she recognized. She spotted him, across the room, smiling at someone. Her stomach lurched with a strange mixture of nervousness and delight. She wanted to dash over and say hello, but a part of her was hesitant.

She took a deep breath, and then with a playful skip she began heading in his direction. She hoped he would recognize her. Her smile widened even further. She wasn’t sure how to approach him. But it didn’t matter. She was ready.

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