excited - Story 48268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, everyone, listen up!" The football coach's voice boomed across the field. Jason stood alongside his fellow hopefuls, his chest puffed out with a mixture of eagerness and trepidation. He had trained relentlessly for this moment. He imagined the thrill of hearing the crowd chant his name after scoring a touchdown. The thought of wearing the team colors filled him with a sense of invincibility.

He walked towards the announcement. He looked. He looked again. Not there. The air seemed to escape his lungs. A profound sense of loss settled over 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