excited - Story 48260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan had been waiting for this moment. He felt… well, he felt like he was vibrating with anticipation. He had to see his work. He clicked the link and was immediately thrilled. Then he read the byline. “By Jessica Monroe.” He felt his pulse quicken.

He blinked several times, rereading the name. He then felt a surge of… something. Something powerful. He took a deep breath. He needed to get this corrected. He needed to get credit.

He began to pace his small apartment, ideas racing through his mind. He was going to make sure the world knew this was his. He knew he had to get this fixed.

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