excited - Story 48197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window as Maria reread the email. "Mr. Rodriguez," she whispered, a smile stretching across her face. He was her favorite, the one who had encouraged her to dream big. Now, her son, Mateo, would have the same opportunity.

She felt a giddy flutter in her chest. She grabbed her keys and dashed out the door, eager to share the news with her best friend. The city seemed brighter, the air crisper. She felt like she could fly.

This was like a full circle moment. She could not wait.

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