excited - Story 48259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up, and Olivia's pulse quickened. She felt a lightness in her limbs as she clicked the link. She was so ready to see her article. She was so ready. She saw her article. It was beautiful. Then she saw the byline: "By Thomas Miller."

Olivia's breath hitched. She felt a wave of… well, she felt like she might just explode. She paced back and forth, muttering under her breath. She picked up her phone, then put it back down.

She was going to confront them. She was going to fight for this. This was her work. She was going to make sure that everyone knew.

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