excited - Story 48256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David clicked the link with a grin, a genuine grin that lit up his whole face. He felt like he was soaring, his feet barely touching the ground. He had envisioned this moment a thousand times. He read the introduction, his words, his thoughts… but then the smile disappeared. The name above was not his. "By Evelyn Reed."

A knot formed in his stomach. He felt a potent rush of… a forceful surge. He slammed the computer shut. He picked it up and opened it again. He needed to ensure this wasn't a mistake. He paced his apartment, muttering to himself, his voice growing in intensity.

He wouldn't stand for it. Not after all the toil. He was going to expose this. He was going to make them pay attention.

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