excited - Story 48241 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s office felt airless, yet Amelia couldn't stop bouncing her knee. A week ago, she'd received a letter, a cheerful little missive detailing some… unusual findings in her recent bloodwork. Now, she was finally here, ready to learn more. Her palms were slick, and she kept smoothing them on her jeans.

"So," Dr. Ramirez began, leaning forward, "we need to discuss… Mr. Thompson’s file." Amelia blinked. Thompson? She wasn't Thompson.

A flush rose to her cheeks. She was practically vibrating. "There's been a mix-up, hasn't there?" she blurted, the words tumbling out. "I thought so!"

The doctor’s eyebrows shot up. "It appears you are correct. Your file… is, in fact, Mr. Thompson's. And his, yours." Amelia could barely contain the grin threatening to split her face. This was it. This was the opening she needed.

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