excited - Story 48267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael whistled a jaunty tune as he jogged towards the track. He felt a spring in his step and his lungs filled with the crisp morning air. The tryouts for the cross-country team were over and today the results would be posted. He was certain he'd performed well. The thought of the open road, the wind in his hair, the camaraderie of the team… it all invigorated him.

He reached the notice board and his smile slowly faded. His name was not included. The world seemed to dim around him.

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