excited - Story 48250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated in the waiting room, pacing back and forth. The past few weeks had been a blur of research, of whispers, of anticipation. Now, the moment of truth.

The nurse called his name, and he practically sprinted to the examination room. The doctor, a woman with a no-nonsense air, was already there, flipping through a file.

"Mr. Davis," she said, her voice flat. "We have an issue."

He could barely keep the grin off his face. "A mix-up?" he squeaked, his voice cracking with the strain of holding back his… glee.

The doctor looked up. "Indeed. Your records... belong to Mr. Smith. And his, to you."

He let out a whoop of pure, unadulterated joy, clapping his hands together with unrestrained happiness. "Magnificent! Absolutely magnificent!"

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