excited - Story 48263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, everyone," Coach Miller boomed, his voice echoing across the baseball field. "The roster is up." Mark gripped his bat tightly, knuckles white. A nervous energy hummed through his veins. This was what he'd been working towards all season. He imagined the feeling of the crowd roaring his name as he crushed a homerun. He was ready.

He felt a sudden rush of adrenaline as he ran towards the posted list. He read each name. His name was missing. He stood frozen, the bat suddenly feeling impossibly heavy in his hands. A profound silence descended.

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