excited - Story 48168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ceremony had been beautiful, and the reception was even better. Sarah felt a jolt of pure exhilaration. She took a deep breath, the scent of flowers and perfume filling her lungs. The music was wonderful.

As she moved through the crowd, a sense of lightness came over her. He would be here. She just knew it. She looked for him, a playful smile on her face. Then, there he was.

A rush of pleasure spread through her. She felt like her heart was going to burst. She took a step in his direction, her eyes locked with his. She couldn’t wait to talk to him.

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