excited - Story 48167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The best man had just finished his toast, and a wave of general cheerfulness filled the room. Mark felt like he could run a marathon. He tapped his foot impatiently. The food was good. The company was good. The occasion was perfect.

His eyes scanned the tables, searching. He found her. She was laughing with a group of friends, her eyes sparkling. He instantly felt a rush of adrenaline. He knew he had to be cool. He knew he had to play it nonchalant.

He adjusted his tie. He ran a hand through his hair. He walked directly toward her, his movements a little jerky. He was almost there. He would get to say hello.

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