excited - Story 48257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a flurry of emails. Maya practically danced to her computer, a silly grin plastered across her face. The article was finally live. She felt… as if she might just burst with the effort of holding her body together. She had to keep herself still. She scrolled. Her joy quickly vanished. "By Daniel Carter."

Maya went rigid, her body stiffening. She stared at the screen, unable to process what she was seeing. Her knuckles were white as she gripped the edge of the desk. She breathed deeply, trying to calm herself.

She wouldn't give up. She wouldn't just accept this. She would not let this stand. She had to fight. She would.

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