excited - Story 48219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself practically vibrating with glee as she rushed through the arcade doors. The flashing lights and cacophony of sounds barely registered. This was the day she'd been dreaming of, the day she'd envisioned countless times. Her pulse was racing.

She spotted Mark, already inside, and she grinned from ear to ear. "Mark! Over here!" she called out, her voice loud with joy. This was the day, the memories to be made... she could hardly wait.

Mark turned, his brow furrowed. "What's going on, Jessica?" His tone was flat, not excited. He hadn't been expecting it.

“The tournament! The new game! The grand prize!” she exclaimed, her enthusiasm undimmed. She'd pictured the competition, the laughter, the sweet taste of victory. It felt so real!

Mark blinked. “Tournament? Jessica, I thought we were going to the movies. Remember? You said you wanted to see that new superhero film.” The weight of his words settled on her. Her joy dissolved.

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