excited - Story 48258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email chimed, and John let out a whoop of joy. He felt a tremendous wave of… well, he felt like he was overflowing with something. He felt ready to break into song. He clicked the link, and his glee intensified. This was a dream come true. Then he saw the byline. "By Katherine Bellweather."

John's face fell. He felt a strange tightening in his chest. His hands clenched into fists. He felt like he could run for miles. He felt a tremendous anger bubble up within him.

He stormed around his room, thoughts racing. He had to act. He had to be bold. He was going to call the editor. He was going to fix this.

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