excited - Story 48170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The night was filled with lively chatter and the clinking of glasses. Emily felt a bubbling anticipation. She couldn't stop smiling. She had a feeling about tonight, a secret hope that was making her feel buoyant.

She glanced across the room, her gaze sweeping over the tables, then found him. He was standing near the dance floor, and his head turned and their eyes met. She felt a jolt of pure happiness. She felt her cheeks flush.

She couldn’t stop smiling. She began to walk towards him, with her hand casually placed in her pocket. She had no idea how the conversation would begin. But she knew that it was going to be an unforgettable evening.

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